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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.efn.org!usenet From: dsoper@efn.org (Dennis Soper) 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: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 20:06:29 GMT Organization: Oregon Public Networking Lines: 24 Message-ID: <331787b1.29541757@news.efn.org> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <330ea403.78621875@mambo> <5ekqvg$864$1@laurasia.ems.psu.edu> <3314508c.253862546@mambo> <5eocsf$nn1$1@laurasia.ems.psu.edu> <5ev60a$63m@server1.erinet.com> <33132036.17A0@dragon.illusions.com> <3313F3FB.747E@visigenic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dynip75.efn.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162293 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2691 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55371 comp.os.os2.advocacy:271070 On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:27:39 +0000, Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> wrote: >dragon wrote: >> 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. > >Uh, no, they weren't. I'm sure in some cases, such as many tcp apps, >which can consist of less that 20 lines of code, vi was used. But >your telling us things like Motif, at least in the latter stages of >development, were written with vi? Adobe uses vi as the in house >build framework? Sorry, I don't buy it. I certainly know lots of people who use vi. My wife wrote databases at AT&T Information Systems with it. I personally use it to write HTML (at home, using, sigh, Windoze)-- configure it right and use the abbreviations and it's the fastest HTML editor around. Emacs is a really nice editor, though. But it just doesn't fit my typing style, so it slows me down. Dennis