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From: nhess@gumby.us.oracle.com (Nate Hess)
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Subject: Re: vi Alternative Required
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Date: 4 Dec 90 19:51:28 GMT
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In article <109752@convex.convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>Let them suffer.  Sorry, I've lost sympathy with cretins.  I recognize
>this is harsh, and that a more tactful way of communicating this would
>have to be found.

>I've seen lots of secretaries using vi to write complex papers in troff
>with eqn and tbl.  If they can do this, I just can't believe an
>operator or progammer needs something that hold their hand more.  These
>people are just being lazy.  Don't let them make you go through a lot
>of work just because they don't want to.

Yeah, you're right.  Why the heck would you actually want to increase
the productivity of your employees / coworkers?  Let 'em struggle with
bear skins and knives.  Like we had to.  Gosh, they *are* lazy cretins
for even *thinking* that the tools they have might not be adequate for
the job at hand.  Why, when we were their ages, we had to edit up-hill
both ways...

--woodstock
-- 
	   "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking
	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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