> So does the author suggest anyone working with Java or C# should quit their job?
No. The author (me) doesn't even suggest that anyone should stop using an IDE for Java or C# development. In fact, the author suggests that development in Java or C# is best done with an IDE, and development in Ruby or Lisp is better done with powerful text processor (like Vim or Emacs) in a Unix-like environment.
If you got the impression I was saying Java and C# programmers should quit their jobs to write code in Ruby and avoid IDEs for the rest of their lives, you weren't reading what I wrote so much as reading into it.
> Or does working with vim also provide you with an alternate space-time continuum which allows you to "just" spend one year doing doing something else entirely without it affecting the world around you and the requirements that you have a job which needs to get done?
It wasn't meant to be taken as "only do this, and nothing else". It was instead meant to be taken as "this is all you need to do to test my point".
No. The author (me) doesn't even suggest that anyone should stop using an IDE for Java or C# development. In fact, the author suggests that development in Java or C# is best done with an IDE, and development in Ruby or Lisp is better done with powerful text processor (like Vim or Emacs) in a Unix-like environment.
If you got the impression I was saying Java and C# programmers should quit their jobs to write code in Ruby and avoid IDEs for the rest of their lives, you weren't reading what I wrote so much as reading into it.
> Or does working with vim also provide you with an alternate space-time continuum which allows you to "just" spend one year doing doing something else entirely without it affecting the world around you and the requirements that you have a job which needs to get done?
It wasn't meant to be taken as "only do this, and nothing else". It was instead meant to be taken as "this is all you need to do to test my point".