On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>> Samples of the Chevy/Jaguar choice are easy to come by in the digital
>> world:
>>
>>   Chevy            Jaguar
>>   ---------------- -------------------
>>   nano             emacs
>>
>
> Funny, but I've never heard of emacs being compared to a sports car before.
> vi, maybe, all sleek and fast with no extras.
> But emacs seems more like a minivan.
> With cupholders.
> And an owners manual stashed in the glovebox.
> And a luggage rack.
> Pulling a trailer filled with more packages that you might want to use.

Nano is a bicycle and emacs is telecommuting. vim is the minivan. :)
-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.
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