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From: dragon <ktaylor@dragon.illusions.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:24:06 -0700
Organization: Desert Dragon SOHO Solutions
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Christopher A. Shamis wrote:
>
> As far as human factors go; vi fails miserably. It's not intuitive, and its
> commands are cryptic, and confusing. Powerfull yes. So...? Who cares?
>
Well as far as who cares apparantly all the MS weenies do. They are the
only ones that really bring up the vi issue. UNIX folks have long ago
learned others like emacs, jove, textedit, and a whole group of others
that we can get for free. So who cares?
And if vi is soooooo bad, then how do you explain TCP/IP, GUI's,
networks, Adobe, etc. etc.. They where all created on UNIX systems with
vi as the editor.
Oh well, who cares?
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Karl E. Taylor UNIX Systems Administrator
Desert Dragon SOHO Solutions ktaylor@dragon.illusions.com
http://www.illusions.com/ddsoho
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"If it does not say UNIX on it,,, then it is a toy!!!"