On 11/30/2009 11:49 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: >> On 11/28/2009 10:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Debayan Banerjee wrote: >>>> Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs >>>> have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the >>>> distribution shows Fedora packagers' personal preference too. I guess >>>> both vim and emacs should be available. >>> >>> Both vim and Emacs are obsolescent and hard to use. Kate FTW! >>> >>> Kevin Kofler >>> >> >> On the contrary, they're both quite easy to use. They're just hard to learn. >> This is intentional. If you're smart enough to use a real man's editor then >> you're smart enough to send patches to other real men who are writing real >> men's software. We don't actually want just /anyone/ writing code, do we? >> (well, Java people do, but its impossible to do anything useful in Java >> anyway. That's why you need a gigantic resource-intensive IDE to do >> everything for you). >> >> --CJD >> > > I guess all the female hackers are just SOL? > >
I consider "real men" to be a gender-neutral complement. I know women who gladly receive it and exchange it amongst themselves. Not to say that that doesn't necessitate clarification. --CJD -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
