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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: C code Layout
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.143859.4802@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <771@ulogic.UUCP> <1992Dec23.153137.13423@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BzzLzv.ApL@rahul.net>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:38:59 GMT
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- In <BzzLzv.ApL@rahul.net> kpapai@rahul.net (Ken Papai) writes:
-
- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- >>And you obviously grew up on Pascal and PC's. Now, what do you do
- >>when you have to work (simultaneously) on: VAX/VMS, SGI/MIPS UNIX,
- >>MCS-68k OS-9, SunOS, and MS-DOS? Gee, sorry, but you're too
- >>unproductive trying to run Brief on VMS . . .
- >>One editor to find them all, and in the darkness bind them . . .
-
- >Well, Pascal was my first formal language I learned in college. (lucky
- >me) Then LISP, Algol 68, and TI 980-A assembly. Then it was PC Basic
- >and Z80 and 8086. And, I find it much easier, and a lot more productive
- >to do major edits on PC Brief and swap back quickly to Vax or IBM 370
- >with the file. Every "mainframe" editor I have encountered sucks donkey fumes.
- >(Incidentally, I've never seen or heard of Brief running under VMS)
-
- That's exactly the point. You're not going to be real productive
- trying to run Brief on a VMS box -- since it won't. You're also
- assuming that you have some kind of reliable file transfer and that
- your LAN (or other connection) has loads of excess bandwidth. Either
- of those assumptions may turn out not to be true. However, if I have
- a compiler and some way to load a tape, I can have an Emacs editor
- (and I can make it look like anything I want it to look like,
- including, no doubt, Brief).
-
- >(Before Brief, I though WordStar was best editor for me, but then, I simply
- >was totally uninformed and narrow minded)
-
- You can probably make Emacs look like WordStar, too, but I'm not sure
- why you would want to. ;-)
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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