[ale] Ongoing vim vs. emacs

[George L. Allen]

A _real_ programmer could create a wireless serial interface to the stack with
two coils of wire, a potato, and a chunk of galena.

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:03:29PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Um. So to _use_ cat you have to actually have a keyboard for input, right?
> 
> Real programmers use pencil and paper. Then they set the 8 toggle
> switches...
> 
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Alexander Barton <abarton at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > > ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA!  ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
> > > AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES!  ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
> > > BODILY FLUIDS!!  ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!  ED MAKES THE SUN
> > > SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
> > >
> > >
> > > When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
> > > help screens and cursor positioning code!  I just want an EDitor!!
> > > Not a "viitor".  Not a "emacsitor".  Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
> > >
> > > ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
> > >
> > > http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/ed.html
> >
> > Pah!  What BLOATWARE!  Real programmers use cat.
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> James P. Kinney III

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