[NCLUG] Looking at programming languages...

[Chad Perrin]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > It seems ludicrous that this sort of behavior isn't already available.
> > It strikes me as the logical way to handle things -- more so than any of
> > the options that are currently available.  Why must Vim assume that you
> > don't know what you want, and change things -- either changing tabs you
> > entered into spaces or changing spaces into tabs?
> > 
> > Am I the only person who thinks this doesn't make much sense?
> 
> Software projects get created because someone has an itch to scratch.
> Someone needs something that isn't otherwise available.  Or isn't
> available in a way that meets their needs.  It isn't all that unusual
> for people to find things that they think should be available but
> isn't.  They create it and then it is available.  If you need it then
> this may be an itch for you to scratch.

It just boggles my mind that what strikes me as the obvious default is
instead a currently unattainable (by standard software configuration
means) ideal, and that the actual defaults involve some kind of byzantine
layering of counter-features and counter-counter-features.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Dr. Ron Paul: "Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when
terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons."