asciilifeform: mod6: the temp dir is primo example of an always-ok-to-kill item. i.e. one which the vtron run itself created and would never otherwise exist
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : best part is re how evidence remains seekrit, plus the usual claptran in re how e.g. usg not obligated to do anything in return for the confession )
asciilifeform: could , in principle, be expanded into a scripting lang.
asciilifeform: that being said, gprbuild ( what ffa uses instead of gnumake ) seems to make very effective use of a kind of interpreted subset of ada
asciilifeform: i dun particularly relish pythonism, but proliferation of 'i wrote it on a napkin, on a train, while drunk' script langs, incl. elisp-style dynamicscope abortions, is imho harmful
asciilifeform: but then again why the everlivingfuck would i run with defaults on a ~configurable~ tool that i use 14+ hr/day )
asciilifeform: ( it was born on keyboards which no longer exist )
asciilifeform: emacs per se is nothing to write home about, it is full of gnarly archaicisms , and the default keymapping will, as naggum described, destroy your hands , unless you fix it
asciilifeform: the meaningless shitwork ratio, lacking slime, moves from 0% to ~100%
asciilifeform: (not 'emacs' per se, but e.g. slime. you couldn't pay me to write lisp without slime or equivalent, just as not even gulag inmates will dig with hands instead of spade )
asciilifeform: and given the choice, will take ballpoint pen over feather, and emacs over 'ed'
asciilifeform: and i 'can work' with other editor, just as can write with goose feather and ink also, and can saw with hand saw instead of electric saw... so long as it is understood that everything will take 50x longer.
asciilifeform admits that he does not particularly ~like~ emacs. it simply ended up a schelling point, like linux. but suffers from same type of problems.
asciilifeform: ( it has a superior grandfather, the actual bolix lispm. but no equiv on pc. )
asciilifeform: the only item i use that has no equiv whatsoever outside of emacsland, is slime
asciilifeform: in the same sense as e.g. mircea_popescu is 'crippled from' eating at wallmart .
asciilifeform: not sure how it'd cripple , aside from cultivating the 'unreasonable' expectation of sanity (i.e. extensibility) of editor
asciilifeform: ( though if you intend to do any commonlisp, you're more or less doomed to either use it, or emulate it )
