Vim and Emacs talks are similar to friendly discussion about virtues of Lisp and APL.<p>Lisp is about universal mechanism to adapt to everything which is lambda, so you can grow it for the task at hand.<p>APL is about carefully complete set of orthogonal primitives which can be combined, so it&#x27;s &quot;library-less language&quot;, harder to extend, focused not on programming but on describing computation itself - using finite universal set of operations.<p>Vim operations are suspiciously reminding those odd operators - verbs, adverbs, conjunctions - of J.