1) Don't really have a defense for that. Then again, not everyone who uses an IDE and claims they know OOP had had experience with Smalltalk. 2) I have encount

1) Don't really have a defense for that. Then again, not everyone who uses an IDE and claims they know OOP had had experience with Smalltalk. 2) I have encountered people who used UML/SQL schema diagrams in a cargo-cultish way to prove to themselves and (especially) others that what they were doing was well thought-out when in fact the opposite was the case. 3) That reads more like an argument in favor of Vim/Emacs as superior editors. Also, it seems silly to blame lack of refactoring on editor when it's more of an issue of whether the programmer has a sense of code elegance and clarity or not. 4) I guess hubris is not exclusive to either side.