On Friday 15 September 2006 14:09, you wrote:
> It's pretty funny that it's taken this long for another religious
> discussion on text editors to pop up on misc. With all the faith,
> I would have expected it more often.
>
> My faith in the non-Improved vi is reinforced every time I see
> someone using vim with color syntax highlighting. Highlighting
> makes source code impossible to read to someone who isn't used
> to it. I'm really perplexed about how people think that having
> each line of source code in six different colors somehow makes
> things clearer.
Hehe, that might be a good point. Though I must say I usually like it. Maybe
it's the break in monotony, pretty colors. Guess what I like about color is
being able to spot something at a glance.
It is funny to because many people are set in their ways and don't want to
learn something new. Some are pround to have mastered something and don't
want to join the masses who, by using some new tool, can do it faster and
maybe better than the old method.
I see doctors who spend ten years learning something. The last thing they want
to hear is that their knowledge is now obsolete. Which is always the risk in
any high tech industry like ours.
--
Steve Szmidt
"To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be
capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control.
A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty.
From the Declaration Principles
