People love dissing the Emacs text editor. Emacs is one of those
arcane things that even _geeks_ aren’t expected to understand. It’s
probably the canonical example of a tool built for geeks by geeks:
hard to use, hard to understand, hard to just pick up and play with.

I really don’t think Emacs is bad. It’s just misunderstood, the way
mainstream people think Linux is bad because it’s all command-line
when the truth is that Linux is so much more than that. Emacs is so
much more than what people think it is, but people just settle for the
quick sound bite.

As Alex Schroeder (kensanata) blogged:

I’m going to blog about this too.

• Read Kathy Sierra: Creating happy programmers
• Read kensanata’s response