Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 02:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
>
> > That's because you're fool enough to try to compare an OS like emacs to a "mere
> > text editor" like notepad. ;)
>
> Emacs isn't a text editor. It's an elisp interpreter that just happens
> to come with a text editor application pre-installed. ;-)

and that interpreted text editor alone is so far beyond notepad that calling it
"mere text editor" or comparing to notepad is a joke.

> True. But many people seem to conflate "I like this one the best" with
> "this one *is* the best".

yeah, they should be more realist:  one of the very best! :D

> Most open source software is available for just about every OS known to
> man, and GHC is no exception. (Apparently some people run it on
> hand-held devices even...) But you can usually "tell" which OS a
> particular piece of software originated on.
>
> POV-Ray provides a GUI. Therefore, although there is a Linux version,
> you can tell that's not where it started.

what about Gimp?  Could pov-ray not have originated from Mac?  Do you think only
Windows got windows?

> GHC is heavily Unix-centric. When you install the Windows version of
> GHC, it installs a stripped-down version of MinGW. The compiler even
> lists the machine as "i386-unknown-mingw", not as, say, "Windows" or
> something. It installs and uses GCC as its back-end.

and that's because SPJ works for Microsoft, huh? ;)

> >> But it's upsetting to me that I
> >> lost the argument, and nobody else sees how awesome Haskell is.
> >
> > Well, I see how awesome Haskell is. Only problem is that LISP IS SO MUCH MORE
> > AWESOME AND TOTALLY PWNS IT, YOU FOOL!
>
> I disagree. But then, you knew that. More importantly, there are actual
> Lisp enthusiasts who disagree:

you take me too seriously... :p

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