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From: djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
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Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
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Date: 28 Jan 91 21:16:25 GMT
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In article <1500@cuenews.UUCP> andrew@cuenews.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) writes:
>In <4bcMrzy00awG0BdkYQ@andrew.cmu.edu> ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) writes:
>>> HEY GUYS, GET REAL, VI is the only editor for me!
>>
>>You're all saps.  ED from WorkBench 1.0 rules.  Better yet, EDIT.
>>Actually, I don't use editors.  I just type ASCII values into a program
>>that writes them sequentially to disk.
>
>ASCII?  What the heck is that?  I usually just "copy * >executable".
>Saves a lot on all that compilation time. ;-)

Yeah, I tried that once.  When I wasn't looking the cat pressed a key and
I didn't notice.  So when I ran the program, the keyboard locked up.  No
problem, I just ran romwack, patched up the program, and back to normal.

Seriously now, typing programs in is too much of a waste of time.  Right
now I am practicing singing into the modem to edit programs.  300bd isn't
too bad, but 1200 makes me hoarse.
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.