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What an opinionated piece of crap TFA is. This kind of stuff is precisely why I stopped reading The Reg a long time ago. Seriously: "4. The editor should con
by martinced 14y ago
What an opinionated piece of crap TFA is. This kind of stuff is precisely why I stopped reading The Reg a long time ago.
Seriously:
"4. The editor should contain no implementation of Lisp."
Why do they do that? Because of course Emacs totally rocks in their last example, where you need to apply the same modification to various lines (in Emacs you'd probably use a macro repeating some search and replace using a quick Lisp substitution).
How do you even want to talk with people who argue for their own limitation?
Appeal to authority: I urge people to read "Beating the average" from pg.
- Avshalom 14y agoThat's fine because emacs has been an implementation of lisp that contains an editor for years now.
- fein 14y agoElisp is why I love emacs so much, especially given that I get that all that power in a console. Editor wars are editor wars I guess. People just need an excuse to write about something it seems. I think the only prereq for a good editor is that it should be free, and nothing more. Everything else is a matter of preference.
- lotsofcows 14y agoIt's a joke! How is it possible, given the URL, that it's the Reg, the author's name, the layout and the content to miss that it's a joke? This particular line is a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule
- RickHull 14y agoIn this house, we obey Poe's law!
- redacted 14y ago-------> the joke 0 /|\ you / \
- marcosdumay 14y agoHe wants to test text editors, not programming environments or IDEs. He makes that quite explicit. By the way, I'm an emacs fan.