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I've read your article... Holy shit. They took a simple, sed-like tool and turned it into an abomination.
by layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
I've read your article... Holy shit. They took a simple, sed-like tool and turned it into an abomination.
- the-dude 6y agoIt ain't done before it can receive e-mail.
- hyperpallium2 6y agoEvery program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI was going to suggest Vim as a counterexample, but sure enough https://github.com/soywod/iris.vim https://github.com/soywod/iris.vim
- tingol 6y agoThat's a community based plugin, Vim is still focused on text editing and not much else.
- marcosdumay 6y agoMost of the functionality on the editors like vim and emacs comes from community based plugins. People would mostly not use them if there were no such expansions.
- barumi 6y agoThis baseless assertion is simply wrong. Plugins are nice to have, but the bulk of their use is to customize default installs.
- oefrha 6y agoIt can receive email. See my follow-up here with a working implementation: https://github.com/clopen/xpath-receive-email https://github.com/clopen/xpath-receive-email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960548
- 0df8dkdf 6y agoHahah, that just really got carried away. Ok, any idea if there is replacement? I found version 1 useful for scrapping web sites. Or should I just stick with 1.0 ?
- riku_iki 6y agoCurious what is the problem with this? You can still use your small sed-like subset of language in your project?
- taway611 6y ago>>> They took a simple, sed-like tool and turned it into an abomination. > Curious what is the problem with this? Product Managers.