[UFO Chicago] New Linux Website

Larry Garfield lgarfiel@students.depaul.edu
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 03:02:23 -0600


Nate Riffe wrote:

> I'm going to make a comparison to auto
> racing.  Go to the Indianapolis 500 and you'll a couple dozen cars
> that are all basically the same shape and go about the same speed, but
> have engines and other parts made by different manufacturers.  The
> main difference between them is the driver.  Maybe some driver has
> only raced in one car with a particular Ford engine, and he could
> never win a race in a car with a Mercedes engine simply because he
> isn't familiar with its power curve and doesn't know when to switch
> gears.  Maybe there's another guy who's just the opposite.  These two
> guys are exactly analogous to Jordan with Emacs and Jesse with vim.

And the pico/nano set drive a VW Jetta, because they don't go to a race 
track anyway, they just want to drive to work in the morning. :-)

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