From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 8: 3:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902CE37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:03:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from Millions.Ca (h24-79-52-254.sbm.shawcable.net [24.79.52.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FEF43FB1 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) id h1OG3rL75730 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:03:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: from Cedar.Millions.Ca(192.168.64.8) via SMTP by mail-gw-0.millions.ca, id smtpdv75728; Mon Feb 24 09:03:49 2003 Received: from millions.ca (Bonsai.Millions.Ca [192.168.64.4]) by cedar.millions.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1OG3m3P064670 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:03:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from stacy@millions.ca) Message-ID: <3E5A4264.2010801@millions.ca> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:03:48 -0700 From: Stacy Millions Organization: Millions Consulting Limited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C coding editor References: <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <200302231017.16894.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <200302231017.16894.wes@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message