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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
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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