Re: [Swarm-Support] building swarm without emacs

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Artem Baguinski wrote:

> and i'm still curious what made emacs a tool of choice for whatever you
> use it for while building swarm?
Emacs, as used as a informed and programmable text processor (as opposed 
to an interactive editor), is more versatile than tools like Perl and 
Awk because it knows how to in and out of and forward and backward 
through expressions (e.g. Objective C code).   Other popular text 
processing tools tend to be line oriented and ignorant of structure.   
It also has a real programming language, Lisp with a large library of 
functions.