On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On 11/28/2009 10:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Debayan Banerjee wrote: > >> Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs > >> have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the > >> distribution shows Fedora packagers' personal preference too. I guess > >> both vim and emacs should be available. > > > > Both vim and Emacs are obsolescent and hard to use. Kate FTW! > > > > Kevin Kofler > > > > On the contrary, they're both quite easy to use. They're just hard to learn. This is intentional. If you're smart enough to use a real man's editor then you're smart enough to send patches to other real men who are writing real men's software. We don't actually want just /anyone/ writing code, do we? (well, Java people do, but its impossible to do anything useful in Java anyway. That's why you need a gigantic resource-intensive IDE to do everything for you). > > --CJD > I guess all the female hackers are just SOL? -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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