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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: DEC EDT-like editor
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Date: 12 Feb 90 06:23:33 GMT
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|In Feb 1987 Dr. Dobb's Journal had an issue with a cover article entitled
|Text Editors: The Baby Duck Syndrome.  The article wasn't especially
|enlightening, but one sentence summarized it all:
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|  "Like ducklings that adopt the first moving object they see as a mother,
|  programmers often adopt the first editor they learn as the model of
|  what an editor is and should be."

Let's see, I've gone through RT-11 edit, EDT, V7 ed, Wordstar, vi, and
I'm now picking up emacs. They all had their high points and ugly
bits. None of them is my ideal editor. I guess I'm not a programmer
then. :-) :-)