this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
470 points (97.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

32018 readers
571 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For everyone who has not already, this is so worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you. I had not read that before. The novice's first steps are just wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

"WYGIWYG" - love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is awesome. But one question as I'm not so familiar with emacs: Why do they punish someone when trying to use emacs but not vi? Why do you see emacs as something works?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not sure, but I think emacs at least used to have a reputation as a resourse hog and bloated. So maybe that?