The top rated post has some good points, but this is just plain wrong: "Using terrible tools, and taking pride in their awfulness - Especially common with prog

The top rated post has some good points, but this is just plain wrong: "Using terrible tools, and taking pride in their awfulness - Especially common with programmers, who take pride in using programming languages and text editors that have been designed by programmers, not updated since the 1970s, and never touched by anyone with a modicum of design sense. " Comments: * Since when is being "designed by programmers" a negative thing? Best tools are built to scratch an itch. * "Not updated since the 1970s", I hope he isn't talking about emacs, C, UNIX and (many different) Lisps I'm most productive with Linux, emacs, slime and a either an ML dialect or Lisp (I also love C greatly). All of these have their roots in 60s, 70s and sometimes earlier but have been updated recently (that's where there's "C99"). I don't know anybody running SysV and using Bill Joy's original ex, or original teco emacs. Seems like the post is just flame-bait against hackers who use tools they love and are productive with. The part about Apple products is the same as well: I like my Macbook Pro laptops and I like the idea of iTunes (but I find Amazon MP3 to be a better implementation). However, for many of their other products hackers simply aren't the target audience: am I being "stupid" by not using an iP(phone|pad|pod) when it just doesn't do what I like?