Posted by: Administrator
on April 10, 2007 02:46 AM
Why don't people just use a simple text editor?
Why would they want to bloat it with task manager and e-mail functionality?
Because it's not actually bloated until you use the extra functionality. In other words, the functionality is extra. It sits on disk until you need it, and disk is cheap.
100% agreed. The unix philosophy of "do one thing, do it well" is all very well, but you have to know what level to apply it to. Emacs is really more of a platform than a simple program, and is probably more complex than a whole OS was back in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy" title="wikipedia.org">Doug McIlroy's</a wikipedia.org> days. In this context it is Muse-mode that is the program, and it does indeed do one thing and do it well (although I prefer org-mode myself).
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Re:Bloat-esque
Posted by: Administrator on April 10, 2007 02:46 AM100% agreed. The unix philosophy of "do one thing, do it well" is all very well, but you have to know what level to apply it to. Emacs is really more of a platform than a simple program, and is probably more complex than a whole OS was back in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy" title="wikipedia.org">Doug McIlroy's</a wikipedia.org> days. In this context it is Muse-mode that is the program, and it does indeed do one thing and do it well (although I prefer org-mode myself).
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