On 17/02/2021 10:20, druck wrote:
> On 16/02/2021 19:15, TimS wrote:
>> Even vi has a manual that is 127 pages long. A *manual*? For a fucking
>> *editor*? What are these guys smoking?
>
> That's because it's an enormously powerful text manipulation program,

because it hasn't got a gui, it needs to be. Remember Vi was first
written for teletypes. You know. Go to line 32 and replace 'grsx' with
'grrr'

you used it with a heavily marked up printout of your source code and
the errors coming out of the compilers.

At te days end you submitted your code and et operators would print it
out and try and compile it again

My first simple FORTRAN program took 12 weeks to write and debug


> and not just a text box with a cursor like Notepad.
>
Nothing wrong with notepad

> ---druck


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