Subject: Re: Want CL Popularity? Just hack the CIA with it. (promoting CL in  counter-culture)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 11 Nov 2002 00:45:11 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3245964311906475@naggum.no>

* Michael Sullivan
| The only advantage to knowing vi is that you become comfortable when
| faced with a bare unix install that includes only a torture instrument
| where you would expect to find a text editor.

  Do you mean `ed´?

| vi is absolutely *the* most user-hostile program it has ever been my
| displeasure to get stuck using.  It never ceases to amaze me that it is
| still considered the standard unix text editor.

  No, `ed´ is the standard text editor.  It says so right here in the 7th
  edition Unix manual.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

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