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by twic 3354 days ago
Tools, yes. But seeing editors and keyboards as the tools indicates that someone is operating at a pretty low level of abstraction. If you asked a civil engineer what their favourite tool for designing bridges over deep valleys was, and they said "a Rotring isograph" [1] rather than "parabolic arches", would you be impressed?

[1] http://www.cultpens.com/i/q/RT04273/rotring-isograph-technic...