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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:52:20 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GAS question
Message-ID:  <199603192322.JAA02678@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603192030.NAA24685@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 19, 96 01:30:48 pm

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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > You're arguements against using Emacs apply as well to VC++, so are
> > moot.
> 
> Not so.  I can click Icon's and menus without having to remember it.

Ah.  So you haven't actually _compared_ the two then.  Or hadn't you
realised that Xemacs' IDE has clickable (and programmable) icons, 
menus, language-sensitive syntax colourisation, paren-checking, automatic
language-sensitive indentation (programmable to cover almost any 
indentation style) etc. ad nauseam.

It's obviously been a while 8)

> parity by learning all the secrets than someone dropped naked in
> front of Emacs (or vi, or into writing a makefile, for that matter).

Don't buy it.  If the victim is a halfway competent programmer, then they'll
have the nousse to work themselves out quickly enough.
If they're a trained monkey, you don't want them in the first place.

> 					Terry Lambert

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