Re: mac pour les powerusers ; chromebook pour madame michu

Toi tu ne connais pas Neal Stephenson. En 1997, Lors de l'écriture du cryptonomicon, il me semble, il écrivait ses romans avec emacs sous Debian.

Il a même ouvert un bug : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=6518

Tiens, il raconte son expérience dans un texte :In the Beginning was the Command Line :

In the GNU/Linux world there are two major text editing programs: the minimalist vi (known in some implementations as elvis) and the maximalist emacs. I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. For page layout and printing you can use TeX: a vast corpus of typesetting lore written in C and also available on the Net for free.

Bon, d'accord, aujourd'hui il écrit sous OSX, mais si on peut pas être au moins un peu de mauvaise fois dans un troll, alors, où va le monde !

When you wrote "In the Beginning was the Command Line," you were very much in love with BeOS. As nice as BeOS was, it is now mostly gone. Do you still use BeOS 5, or have you acquired YellowTab from Zeta? Or, instead have you embraced the new UNIX based MacOS X as the OS you want to use when you "Just want to go to Disneyland"?

Neal:

You guessed right: I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of "In the beginning was the command line" is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely.

Faut pas gonfler Gérard Lambert quand il répare sa mobylette.