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This is actually my first post ever on HN. It is in fact not very often that I post anywhere on the interwebs. But I have to speak up. Can. We. Stop. Posting.
by maidenvoyag3 15y ago
This is actually my first post ever on HN. It is in fact not very often that I post anywhere on the interwebs. But I have to speak up.
Can. We. Stop. Posting. About. Fng. Text. Editors.
Please.
Imagine a room where you teleport in computer greats (in no order of importance, and I am probably forgetting tons of worthy people in my pang of internet angst) such as Gates, Torvalds, Ritchie, Thompson, von Neumann, Knuth, Turing, Carmack, ..., Joy, Berners-Lee, Babbage, Stroustrup, Dijkstra, Norvig, Moore, Noyce. I don't think these guys would start talking about text editing, so why should we?
- darthdeus 15y agoPeople talk about what's important to them. For some it might be proving that SVN is stupid (Torvalds?) and for others it might be proving that one editor is superior to others (SublimeText 2 obviously </sarcasm>).
- beggi 15y agoOh yes, I can't imagine a room full of professionals talking about the tools they use to get their job done.
- hwiechers 15y ago"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." - Pablo Picasso
- Jimmie 15y ago"I don't trust un-cited quotes on the internet anymore" - Gandhi
- SeamusBrady 15y agoMy Dad is a classic car enthusiast. He will quite happily talk to his fellow classic car enthusiasts about the obscurities of 1970's carburetors for hours. But who else would want to do this? Programmers write lots of code in text editors (usually - hello Smalltalkers!). They will quite happily discuss text editors for hours. Welcome to HN :)
- burgerbrain 15y ago"why should we?" Because we want to, that's why. If you don't want to, feel free to ignore it.