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The author claims that a strong knowledge of development tools is a good indicator of general proficiency, but what if it's that learning how to use your editor
by seabass-labrax 2y ago
The author claims that a strong knowledge of development tools is a good indicator of general proficiency, but what if it's that learning how to use your editor makes you proficient? After all, nobody gets familiar with Emacs without inadvertently becoming a practitioner - if not an enthusiast - of Lisp!
That happened with me, and I'm now a big fan of functional programming, Clojure, Scheme etc., and that experience and exposure to a particular way of writing code has undoubtedly made me a better programmer. It sounds like you've had a similar experience with Vimscript :)
- trustno2 2y agoI hate vimscript. vimscript is a horrible language.
- kazinator 2y ago> nobody gets familiar with Emacs without inadvertently becoming a practitioner - if not an enthusiast - of Lisp So you might think, until you meet a fervent Emacs advocate that doesn't know anything about "the underlying Lisp stuff".