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If anyone genuinely believed this, would any of the software any of us here use exist? Hacker News certainly wouldn't exist. The web wouldn't exist. Hell, Un
by Semiapies 15y ago
If anyone genuinely believed this, would any of the software any of us here use exist?
Hacker News certainly wouldn't exist. The web wouldn't exist.
Hell, Unix wouldn't have ever existed.
- vacri 15y agoIt's an allegory, it's not meant to be genuinely believed in the first place.
- Semiapies 15y agoIt's an allegory to push a dumb and harmful stance.
- vacri 15y agoThe stance it's pushing is "understand the reasons why the tools before you are limited, and give some thought into the deeper reasons why you would want to create a new tool. Don't just rush headlong into it" Yeah, how dumb and harmful that is, asking people to think before acting.
- Semiapies 15y agoThat would be the stance it pushed if it actually had anything revelatory to say about that idea, or if it wasn't trotted out mindlessly every time someone started work on a new tool. As it is, it's just hidebound smugness.
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- snotrockets 15y agoI do not see this start of work you talk about.
- Semiapies 15y agoThen you might RTFA instead of posting vapid koans.
- repsilat 15y agoThe "UNIX way" isn't to write a better editor, it's to use an editor that interacts well with other tools (i.e., the tools we already have at the command line.)