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- From: stevens@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (John Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: editors (was Re: fastest code)
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 10:03:32 -0400
- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- On 6 Apr 1996, Niels Ull Jacobsen wrote:
- > Of course, all *great* programs are written by *real* programmers
- > squinting at a 12 inch 80x25 black-and-green monitor running vi at 3
-
- A MONITOR! Man, all great programs were toggled in from the front panel
- switches. Or was that wired in the patch bay? Maybe punched on cards?
- Or maybe pounded out (literaly) on a model 33 teletype using ed or ex.
-
- I have heard that one of the principle engineers at MKS uses ex because
- vi is 'too slow'. I'd like to see him type! (BTW, MKS has an excellent vi
- imlementation in their toolkit, if you need one).
-
- Laughing in my coffee, not crying in my beer,
- John S.
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