[defvar]

Hi Alan, do you still do coding (any kind of, for any purpose) these days? If you do, what's your comfortable setup (say, language, editor, tools and etc)?

[DeepAndDark]

I would also like to know if he uses emacs or vim, or whatever. And if he thinks the editor is relevant.

[alankay1]

Yikes!

[syngrog66]

possible takeaway: even Alan Kay knows not to wade into the religious war that is vi-or-emacs ;-)

[mmiller]

I think one thing that scared him away was the word "relevant"... VIM might have as well (very primitive). Emacs tries to do some things that are worth doing, but it brings the user into "textland," not "systemland."

[ontouchstart]

Are we in a "textland" or a "systemland" when we have these symbolic conversations on HN across space and time?

[mmiller]

More "textland" than anything else, though that has to do with the medium we're using to communicate "across space and time." What Alan has advocated is that the medium we're using in this particular instance should be a version of "systemland."

[gsylvie]

YIKES stands for "Yes, I Kan Edit Stuff." It was designed and built by Alden Bates.

http://www.tetrap.com/software/yikes/

[Gargoyle]

Tabs or spaces? :-)

[wojt_eu]

Vim or NeoVIM?