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From: nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 24 Feb 1997 03:30:19 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
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Sang K. Choe <sangria@inlink.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.

There are plenty of more user hostile programs out there.
Vi is heaven compared to ed.  And people have used ed for real
editing in the past.

Jeremy