Xref: utzoo comp.misc:5593 comp.editors:574 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 89 07:32:05 GMT References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <252@torch.UUCP> <2112@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com> <743@stag.UUCP> <5620@cognos.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 8 Re: my previous message, executable objects as data I got side-tracked, and forgot to catch up with the topic at hand. Now, these languages for the most part have a very simple, orthogonal syntax. This makes it fairly easy to write data editors because you don't have a lot of syntactic fecal matter competing for attention. Regards, [Ag] gaynor@rutgers.edu