[TxMt] Is the TextMate community faulty?

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> A couple of recent posts asking perfectly reasonable questions about  
> TextMate (can you open documents R/O, can you split the screen) have  
> attracted answers in the spirit of "why would you want to do that?"  
> or "here's a command that will erase your hard drive luser". The  
> latter a particularly stupid and frankly unexpected contribution  
> from Thomas.
>
> I know TM has a lot of fans in the Ruby community. I wonder if we're  
> seeing the same attitude that hangs around Ruby like a bad smell  
> ("you can't write a DSL in any language apart from Ruby", "wow!  
> That's just not possible in other languages") applied to TextMate.
>
> Assuming there's at least some overlap between the two groups of  
> fanatics I'll attempt to address both at the same time: please wait  
> until you've had experience of other languages / editors before you  
> start condemning everthing not-Ruby or not-Textmate.
>
> Ruby and TextMate are both excellent tools; both have limitations  
> and misfeatures as all non trivial software does. Neither will  
> continue to improve if their fans believe them already perfect.
>
>  "And what should they know of England who only England know?"
>                                         Rudyard Kipling, The English  
> Flag
>
> -- 
> Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

That's was unbelievably idiotic of me.
I'm normally not so incredibly stupid and irresponsible.

I take full responsibility for my own comments and they in no way  
reflect the views of any community.

thomas Aylott