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<div class="date">1 Apr 2016</div>
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In this <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.html">old essay by Steve Yegge</a>, he has a nice <i>synthesis</i> of static
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vs dynamic types, but also includes lots of interesting observations
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on Emacs (one would have to, since <i>static vs. dynamic</i> is almost as
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old a debate as <i>emacs vs. vi</i>). I liked this quote:
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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People have observed that Emacs has QWAN<sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup>: a nice, organic,
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comfortable rightness that fits like a pair of old jeans, or a snug
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warm chair in a library by a fire. It's very right-brain stuff we're
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talking about here, all touchy and feely and sensitive: exactly the
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kind of thing that programmers are often so lousy at, so it's no
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wonder we don't know the recipe for building it into our
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software. But unlike with UI design, software QWAN can only come
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from the programmer, who is playing the roles of interior decorator,
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head chef, and ergonomic consultant for all the programmer-users of
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said software.
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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