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So here's a meta question: how could we have a comment thread in response to this that doesn't turn into a flame war?

• tikhonj 14y ago
  No more than about a post that dismissed macs as having a "Fisher-Price interface", I imagine. (I'm stealing that imagery from one of my professors--some of them really have a way with words.) Moreover, we shouldn't let FUD like that go unchallenged--it might scare reasonable people away from trying Emacs. And that's a net detriment to the world :).
  • notJim 14y ago
    Hmm, I don't feel that saying his post is FUD really contributes to the goal of having this thread not turn into a flamewar. Edit: also, my question was not a yes-or-no question, but you answered with a yes-or-no answer.
    • tikhonj 14y ago
      I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear: the answer is no, because spreading around the idea that Emacs isn't modern is counter-productive. I guess your question wasn't "yes or no". Then the answer is: we shouldn't. If we ignore the fact that he claims Emacs/Vim are "very hard to learn, ugly, lack many modern features", people will start just assuming that it's all true. And, as I mentioned earlier, this will scare people away from truly great editors needlessly.
  • frou_dh 14y ago
    The Fisher-Price thing was widely levelled at Windows XP. In that case, probably due to the default blue and green look.