Every now and then someone comes up with these 'brilliant' ideas, such as reimplementing (La)TeX or Emacs from scratch. All it shows is that they don't have a c

Every now and then someone comes up with these 'brilliant' ideas, such as reimplementing (La)TeX or Emacs from scratch. All it shows is that they don't have a clue of the tons of man-years that have gone into the current incarnations, and the fact that they actually work awesomely well for 99.99% of the cases. Also, he starts from a false premise when he points out that the ipad is the 'most beautiful platform'. It might be ok for watching videos and playing angry birds, but without a physical keyboard it will always suck for composing anything text-related, when compared to a real computer with keyboard and an eye-level screen (also, if you're carrying a BT keyboard for your ipad, you might do better with a macbook air).