From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Rob Pike article Date: 2000/06/15 Message-ID: <3170082432137212@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 634998899 References: <8i689h$iao$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8766rbdlvn.fsf@frown.inka.de> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 961094201 13157 195.0.192.66 (15 Jun 2000 18:36:41 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 2000 18:36:41 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Friedrich Dominicus | Why should using Emacs be a bad decision? The argument is not against Emacs, but Emacs Lisp. Huge difference. | I can't see that anything has occured that suggest that programming | can be done better with anything else but written text. Well, I think GUIs to GUI builders that let me worry less about the stupid and repetitive code that is so often required to make these things fly at all is a huge win. | And because I do not see any other workable approach one may ask if | programming by writing down text isn't the optimal thing. It depends on your typing speed and accuracy. Some people are incredibly inept typers. In fact, so incredibly inept that using a freaking electronic _rodent_ and looking at the same stupid menus over and over and over is faster than typing to these people. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.