Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!haven!adm!news From: mau%alice.CSELT.STET.IT@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Software Obesity Message-ID: <25199@adm.brl.mil> Date: 5 Dec 90 15:23:48 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 13 On 4 Dec 90 15:03:22 GMT, Bill Mitchell ( mitchell@mdi.com ) writes: [talking about cranks...] > I manually > cranked the car over on more than one occasion (I don't think it had > magnetos, so the battery had to be live enough to provide spark). > > Kind of like using ex commands in vi, eh? why? I always use ex commands in vi, maybe because I do not know enough vi commands :-) but I never cranked a car. Let's start a committee against FORTRAN-2 features, and keep good old vi alive... .mau. #include