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Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone by cunninghamd on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:43AM (#6599018)
Not being able to program is the illiteracy of this century.

While I agree with this sentiment, I think it's patently false. The vast majority of people have a hard enough time using Word or Excel, let alone being able to understand programming concepts or actually being able to program!

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Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone by rbanffy on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:54PM (#6603154)
> The vast majority of people have a hard enough time using Word or Excel

Being a majority doesn't prevent them from being illiterate. For most of human history illiteracy was the norm.

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Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone by cdash on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @11:03AM (#6599141)
I have a hard time using word because it always tries to fight what I am trying to do. It is a complicated piece of software that requires quite a bit of time investment to actually understand how everything works.
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Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone by yeahbutbut on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:01PM (#6599534)
It's not false, the illiteracy is just as widespread as in an era before free public education.
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