On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:15 PM, <duf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a long-time lurker on this newsgroup, and I have noticed that in the > last few months there have been significant improvements to Leo, in the > hopes of making it more accessible to the non-technical crowd.
Leo seems insignificant at present. I have little interest in whether Leo is "accessible" to non-technical people. Learn Leo or not--it's your choice. I also have scant interest in Leo "vs." Emacs or Vim. Consider what's happening today, including one-dollar-one-vote democracy [0], "neutered, impotent and obsolete" U.S. corporate media [1] , out-of-control military [2] and surveillance [3] establishments, worldwide inaction on CO2 emissions [4] and an ongoing human-caused mass extinction rivaling the previous "big 5" mass extinctions [5], all enabled by 24/7 corporate-funded right-wing propaganda [6] and [7]. Two novels emphasize the need for courage in the present circumstances: A Tale for the Time Being [8] and The Winter of the World [9]. I recommend either or both for those who think the issues listed above are no concern of ordinary people. If there is one area where I might still make a difference in the computing world, it might be high-speed analysis of types for Python. Lest you think this is a minor business, it is a fact that any useful analysis of computer programs (for example, any kind of refactoring) requires robust knowledge of types. Edward [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCutcheon_v._Federal_Election_Commission#Subsequent_commentary [1] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/glenn_greenwald_us_corporate_media_is [2] http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/ [3] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ [4] http://www.motherjones.com/category/primary-tags/climate-desk [5] http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History-ebook/dp/B00EGJE4G2/ [6] http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545 [7] http://www.desmogblog.com/ [8] http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Time-Being-Ruth-Ozeki-ebook/dp/B008EKMB82 [9] http://www.amazon.com/Winter-World-Century-Trilogy-2-ebook/dp/B007FEFLTO EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
