First let me say, I am a self professed true believer in the cult of Emacs.
That said, the blogger is nuts. You write in what you find useful. I find that Emacs helps me, mainly because I spent my college years pre-paying the start-up cost of learning how to modify it to suit my needs, and modifying myself to its needs.
But other people do things differently, and as they say "That's OK".
