Orchid Win7 v1 escreveu:
>>>> so, all your programs are some monolithic piece of software with all
>>>> parts compiled in one go?
>>>
>>> Yes. Why?
>>
>> because it's both wrong and dumb.
> 
> That's right up there with saying that Haskell is better than C because 
> C is both wrong and dumb. Yeah, it's true, but it won't convince anybody...

The time of monolithic pieces of software is long buried in the past. 
Today it's all composable by hundreds of small libs, perhaps even loaded 
at runtime.  Ever even heard of web mashups?  Application servers?

well, ok, for sufficiently small toy applications and scripts, 
monolithic is good enough.

> How hard would it be to allow each directory to contain a file saying 
> what commands each key should be bound to?

with a Makefile file in each directory each time you press make on the 
command-line it makes that part. ;)

>>>> you're nuts. Any decent editor has support for several file buffers.
>>>
>>> Any decent GUI-mode text editor, yes. On the a text terminal, you
>>> can't do that.
>>>
>>> (Correction: Emacs can do it. And it looks awful.)
>>
>> emacs, vi, pico etc...
>>
>> it may look awful, but it behaves great. Ever heard "don't judge a book
>> by its cover"?
> 
> The whole point of a text editor is for looking at text.

no, the whole point of a text *editor* is for *editing* text.

> Why make it 
> look awful when you can make it look good? Why make your job harder when 
> you can make it easier?

Nobody is making it look awful.  But between spending time making it 
look good and do nothing and looking awful and doing a shitton of stuff, 
you know what open-source developers will do...

plus, looking awful does not your job harder.  On the contrary:  in my 
experience the most beautiful-looking text editors out there are usually 
the most featureless and useless there are.  Why implement features that 
will make it complex and awful-looking?  Better just have a simple 
interface and when the user wants to copy the next 5 long paragraphs and 
paste them 5 times they should do it manually by constant repetition of 
the basic, beautiful and simple mechanisms, rather than just typing 
y5}5p... clearly the latter is making your job far harder!

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