> Don't learn the hippest UI IDE, learn vim or emacs. This jars. Why not recommend really learning Cocoa and AppleScript or VB for Applications? Or really dig

> Don't learn the hippest UI IDE, learn vim or emacs. This jars. Why not recommend really learning Cocoa and AppleScript or VB for Applications? Or really dig into Smalltalk's code browser? vi and emacs have a long track record, and I still use both because I sank the time in to learn them years ago, but I wouldn't recommend them as fundamentally changing someone's view of computing.