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- From: poynor@david.wheaton.edu (George V. Poynor)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Process for its own sake ( was Why I love VI )
- Keywords: vi, love of process
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.182228.20182@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:22:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug6.220308.10458@bvsd.co.edu> <1992Aug10.141520.2914@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Aug10.154956.5432@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Wheaton College, IL
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- In article <1992Aug10.154956.5432@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
- > ... stuff deleted ...
- >I'm always amazed at the fact that the most rapidly evolving field of the
- >20th century attracts so many people who adamantly refuse to evolve with
- >it. I'm 47 years old and my first editor was a keypunch machine. I've
- > ... more stuff deleted ...
- >I've known people so attached to their editors that they did their program
- >editing on the IBM mainframe and downloaded the program to their PCs.
- >Guess where all these people are now? The average computer professional
- >has seven fat years, then seven lean years, then six months of outplacement.
- >
- >Barbara Vaughan
- >bvaughan@opr.princeton.edu
- >
- People who are heavily process-oriented seem to become
- emotionally attached to the process itself. Since many
- computer specialists are this way, it is perhaps under-
- standable that such passionate resistance to change of
- the process would arise.
-
- George Poynor
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- George V. Poynor
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