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Re: ed :-)



I never thought I would have to defend a joke (!) and even to
explain it, but everything has its first time...

Boris wrote:

> We don't need VIitor, we don't need EMACSitor - we need EDitor!!! :)

If you would not cut most of the joke, you could see this line,
with almost the same words, in the original joke.

And for you, Peter: Nobody tried to disregard ed. Moreover, it was
my main editor, when I was a child, and my system was Bell Version
6 (vi was launched at Version 7). Even now, when I use vi, most of
the time is spent on using ed (i.e. the internal command line of vi).
I use sed heavily, which uses the same syntax as ed. And I really
hate monsters, e.g. emacs (but I don't want to start a new religious
war...). You just missed the point...

P.S. The console of that PDP (with the Version 6 I mentioned above)
was a teletype (!). So Peter, I know what is 110 baud-rate. But even
my current frame-relay, worked slower than teletype, when it had to
download the dozens of messages with the hundreds of Kilobytes of
the broken graphics sent to Linux-il list by someone, let's don't
mention his name...

Anyway, the world enhances: 2000 years ago, the Greeks and the
Romans built bridges, and the Maccabis destroyed them. Now, the
Maccabis do both of the jobs  :-(   and they do it faster, higher,
and stronger...

Happy Chanuka (or Hannuca?),
-- 
Eli Marmor
marmor@elmar.co.il
El-Mar Software Ltd.