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From: jshekhel@max.tiac.net (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 21 Feb 1997 18:44:46 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: >
: > Sorry, power I can agree with, but usability? That's an utter and
: > total crock. Vi is the single most user hostile application I have
: > ever had the misfortune of using or trying to teach another to use.
:
: You have lived a very sheltered life.
:
Don't know what you mean by that, but I think I agree about vi. Although
I wouldn't want to go back to developing software under UNIX, vi was far
from the worst thing about it. It seems hostile at first, but it's so well
designed that once you learn the basics, its power just "flows".
: The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
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Jerry J. Shekhel
jshekhel@tiac.net
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"Is maith liom Mi Mheain an tSamhraidh." - M. Ni Chobhthaigh