Subject: Re: Rob Pike article
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/06/15
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3170082432137212@naggum.no>

* Friedrich Dominicus <Friedrich.Dominicus@inka.de>
| 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
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