Depending on your usage, a terminal isn't necessarily minimalistic, apart from the visual side. I've known a lot of people who live in Excel, who could be deemed more minimalistic than a lot of Unix users, using umpteen command-line utilities, a few ad-hoc programming and expression languages…
(Not saying that pg does it that way. For all I know, he might just use vi and mzscheme after all)
(Not saying that pg does it that way. For all I know, he might just use vi and mzscheme after all)