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- From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey)
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.202550.13831@mo.hobby.nl>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:25:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov07.192948.15392@ksmith.uucp>
- Organization: Makkee & Oey
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- keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
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- >Who's "we" I could care less. I use EMACS. However the people I do
- >work for. (LOT's of people) demand it. Techie types who've never been
- >in an office where real work is being done tend to lose perspective. I
- >don't mean niche work either. Visit 5 lawyers offices, and 5
- >accountants office at random in your area, and see what they are using
- >for Word Processing. Wanna take any wagers you won't find *ANY* that
- >are using roff or Tex? (Yea, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'll
- >make the bet with anyone willing to roll the dice with the yellow pages.)
-
- I know of at least one law firm were they use GNU emacs and LaTeX.
- With a proper setup it's an ideal environnement for enormous
- amounts of standard business correspondence. The secretaries
- with WordPerfect experience found WP much more complex.
- No, they never need to program any Lisp macro's, but
- they love the incremental regexp-search.
- --
- Hans Oey
- hans@mo.hobby.nl
-