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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:03:48 -0700
From:      Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C coding editor
Message-ID:  <3E5A4264.2010801@millions.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200302231017.16894.wes@softweyr.com>
References:  <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <200302231017.16894.wes@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:

> Terminal?  You have heard of this really cool thing called windowing 
> software?  ;^)
> 
> I completely utterly fail to understand why some young developers attach 
> some sort of romance to writing code on an 80x25 screen, when all the 
> haxxors my age or older waited (or slaved away) for years, even 
> decades, to get something better and more flexible.

Terminal? 80x25 screen? Bloody luxury. How 'bout ed on a 300 baud DecWriter?
You could even have more then 80 columns, if you had the wide paper :-)

-stacy

-- 
If they keep lowering education standards and raising the price of
gasoline, there are going to be a lot of stupid people walking around.

Stacy Millions                                       stacy@millions.ca
Millions Consulting Limited


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