Re: Official petition for Bram Moolenaar to become a front end developer

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:05:25AM -0700, Andrew Ray wrote:
> Why is cindent in the core of vim? Why does C get special treatment?

Because Eric Fischer wrote it that way. See then comment in feature.h
near the definition of FEAT_CINDENT.

> At first glance it makes it seem like vim has a language bias.

Because Vim is itself written in C, it stands to reason that the
author(s) would make sure that Vim works very well on C code. It also
stands to reason that early on, C programmers would extend Vim in C.

PROTIP: You sound like a troll when you throw around loaded phrases
like "special treatment" and "bias". If you are genuinely curious
about the history of Vim, I suggest toning your rhetoric down. One
can't help but wonder if other "front-end" developers are as insecure
in their profession as you sound to be.

If your intent is to divide the Vim community into "traditional" and
"front-end" programming camps by playing their cultural differences
against each other, then well played, sir. Now please find a more
useful hobby. Maybe you can make the NSA implode.

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