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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: IBM Systems Journal comments on Eiffel
Message-ID: <1431@argus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 22:26:21 GMT
References: <7617@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1733@novavax.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project
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In article <1733@novavax.UUCP>, weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes:
: Typical IBM misspeak.  This is just like saying that the XEDIT editor on
: IBM mainframes is the only usable editor in the world.  If only it were
: even usable. . .

Going from vi to xedit a few years ago was a bit tramatic for me, but now
that I'm familar with xedit I much prefer its capabilities to vi.  xedit
is a surprisingly useful editor once you get the hang of it.  Just recently
there was something in another group about a new feature called a folding
editor which had properities that xedit had several years ago.  (Unfortunately
I don't know what resulted in that group because my feed got nuked between
christmas and new years.).  I have not yet tried gnu-emacs, some day I hope
to have a machine powerfull enough and with enough disk space to load it up.

Because I'm defending IBM in this specific instance, I hope no one gets
the impression that I actually like the Great Satan.  But, every now and
then they do come up with a good idea.


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