[oclug] Vim Rulez (was Programming Wars - Final Results)

[smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:10:49AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     Here's a question I plan to post and get flamed for on Usenet, but I need
> to ask it. If the Unix philosophy involves having small applications working
> together to accomplish your task, then does not Emacs violate this philosophy
> in attempting to do everything? Same goes for Netscrape?

I would say not really. Each emacs mode does one thing, and does it
(usually) well. To the best of my knowledge Emacs itself does very
little  other than provide a lisp environment and an interface to the
operating system. However, I could be wrong.

Netscape, however, does violate this "philosophy" but I wouldn't call netscape
part of "UNIX culture", but this philosopy isn't a law.

my .2 cents

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Copyleft (c) 2001, Scott Moynes
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