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This is actually my first post ever on HN. It is in fact not very often that I post anywhere on the interwebs. But I have to speak up.

Can. We. Stop. Posting. About. Fng. Text. Editors.

Please.

Imagine a room where you teleport in computer greats (in no order of importance, and I am probably forgetting tons of worthy people in my pang of internet angst) such as Gates, Torvalds, Ritchie, Thompson, von Neumann, Knuth, Turing, Carmack, ..., Joy, Berners-Lee, Babbage, Stroustrup, Dijkstra, Norvig, Moore, Noyce. I don't think these guys would start talking about text editing, so why should we?



"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." - Pablo Picasso


"I don't trust un-cited quotes on the internet anymore" - Gandhi


Oh yes, I can't imagine a room full of professionals talking about the tools they use to get their job done.


People talk about what's important to them. For some it might be proving that SVN is stupid (Torvalds?) and for others it might be proving that one editor is superior to others (SublimeText 2 obviously </sarcasm>).


"why should we?"

Because we want to, that's why.

If you don't want to, feel free to ignore it.




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