On 11/30/2009 11:49 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
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?
I consider "real men" to be a gender-neutral complement. I know women who gladly
receive it and exchange it amongst themselves.
Not to say that that doesn't necessitate clarification.
--CJD