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...Well, this is clearly a Vim user. If you're never leaving Emacs, and you're writing plugins to do everything inside it, you're using Emacs exactly as intended.
At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where it actually is a IDE + REPL, like an OS based on Lisp. And then I learned that that already was done and didn't turn out as cool as people had hoped. Oh well.
By all accounts, LispM's were awesome systems to use but lost out due to heavy marketing from unix vendor companies.
At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where it actually is a IDE + REPL, like an OS based on Lisp. And then I learned that that already was done and didn't turn out as cool as people had hoped. Oh well.
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By all accounts, LispM's were awesome systems to use but lost out due to heavy marketing from unix vendor companies.
They were also really expensive, and there have always been people who hated Lisp for the syntax.
>But I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way. ...Well, this is clearly a Vim user. If you're never leaving Emacs, and you're writing plugins to do everything inside it, you're using Emacs exactly as intended.
(ducks)
At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where it actually is a IDE + REPL, like an OS based on Lisp. And then I learned that that already was done and didn't turn out as cool as people had hoped. Oh well.
The C64 was like that. Not Lisp but it booted right into a BASIC REPL. BASIC was the C64's operating system. I still think there is a niche for such a system today (mainly for developing rapidly changing business applications you'd nowadays use Excel for, as well as education).
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At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where it actually is a IDE + REPL, like an OS based on Lisp. And then I learned that that already was done and didn't turn out as cool as people had hoped. Oh well.
By all accounts, LispM's were awesome systems to use but lost out due to heavy marketing from unix vendor companies.
>But I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way. ...Well, this is clearly a Vim user. If you're never leaving Emacs, and you're writing plugins to do everything inside it, you're using Emacs exactly as intended.
Yeah, emacs would be a great operating system, if only it came with a decent text editor. (ducks)
(runs)
At some point I realized Unix is basically a long-running IDE + REPL, and thought that was just so cool . And then I realized how horribly inefficient it is at being that. So I started longing for the days when we had some kind of OS where it actually is a IDE + REPL, like an OS based on Lisp. And then I learned that that already was done and didn't turn out as cool as people had hoped. Oh well.
This depends a lot on the user. In the right hands it's extremely efficient.