Development quotes of the week

In a sense, programming is all about what your program should do in the first place. The “how” question is just the “what”, moved down the chain of abstractions until it ends up where a computer can understand it, and at that point, the three words “multichannel audio support” have become those 9,000 lines that describe in perfect detail what's going on.

Simulating these features in vim, Emacs or Eclipse is possible, just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language...