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From: larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi and emacs
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.133220.4529@st-andy.uucp>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:32:20 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.224717.6150@bradley.bradley.edu> <1991Mar3.071231.29271@cs.ucla.edu> <39861@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: uunet!st-andy!larry (Larry Martell)
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In article <39861@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>< for next line than "control-N" or j (if you know the ascii code).  How can
>< a programmer not know the Ascii code?
>
>Because the vast majority of programmers have no need to know the ASCII
>code.
>
Because the vast majority of programmers have no idea how the underlying
machine works is why there are so many poor programmers.
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Larry Martell
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