> They've no doubt asked themselves why, after so many years, are programmers still programming by the mere editing of dumb text files? While I've thought that

> They've no doubt asked themselves why, after so many years, are programmers still programming by the mere editing of dumb text files? While I've thought that there might be interesting ways of editing code before, I have literally never once asked myself why programmers are "still programming" with text files. All things considered, structured text files are a pretty darn good way of describing program behavior.