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From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Bob McGwier)
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Subject: Re: John Gilmore switches feet!
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 10:15:14 1987
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> 
>>     When was the last time you installed new software that caused some
>>     member of your computer community to have to learn as much as a
>>     single new command?
> 
> Today. It was only a reminder program. I ported Xenix/V7 MicroEmacs to
> System V last week. Took about an hour, I'd guess. And this is at a
> Fortran shop.
> -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter

Peter is certainly smart enough to have guessed, even though I admit it
was not explicit, that my comment referred ONLY to those situations
where the users had no alternative but to learn something new.  Emacs,
though readily available, is usually not the only editor in a shop.

Bob N4HY