jrod...@hate.spamportal.net writes: > Right like a turing complete scripting language that only > exists inside the one editor and nowhere else, has terrible > syntax and clunky usage.
You see, the beauty of a Turing-complete scripting language is that it transmutes software hate into self-loathing. Surcease of sorrow is always just a few more lines of configuration coding away, and you're a dolt if you don't do it. In programming languages, this is known as the Scheme Effect: "sure there's no object system or standard library, but that gives you the freedom to create your very own, and brands you a moron if you don't." Of course, this is irrelevant in the real world. It continues to amaze me how many students I see in the lab using vi without ":set syntax=on" or Emacs without "(blink-cursor-mode -1)", having not even tried to reduce the pain. /s contemplating a new editor, infinitely configurable in Befunge.
