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From: stuart@mtu.edu (Tim Prodin)
Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.172610.27932@mtu.edu>
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Reply-To: stuart@mtu.edu (Tim Prodin)
Organization: Michigan Technological University
References: <2197@pdxgate.UUCP> <3817@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 17:26:10 GMT

In article <3817@uc.msc.umn.edu>, fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) writes:

|> 
|> And if someone says, "it takes too much disk space, CPU time, etc.,"
|> then they really are lost in the 1960s and you need to ask them why
|> they are using computers and not pencil and paper.  This is, after
|> all, 1991 and I run an Emacs-type editor on my RAM-disk-based laptop.
|> What could be more disk-limited than that?
|> 

Well sure.  If the resource is there, abuse it.  No sense writing efficent
programs that are easy to use, small, fast and polite, becuase we can just
by larger machines.  NOT!

This attitude is really incredible.  "My computer is really big, so why 
shouldn't I create a huge (1 Meg on a Symmetry Balance) editor that does
everything (including playing Towers of Hanoi)?  So what if I burn 8 Meg
of swap to create Hello world?"  

I think I would rather be stuck in the 60's.

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"Complacent youth, thats all they want                 Timothy R. Prodin
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trprodin@symmetry.cs.mtu.edu                              stuart@mtu.edu