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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Just how sophisticated should we assume progrr & her/his tools to be?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.175209.16343@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <1992Dec16.004059.15927@news.arc.nasa.gov> <KYV=-5+@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:52:09 GMT
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- In article <KYV=-5+@engin.umich.edu> jxm@engin.umich.edu (John Murray) writes:
- >- The assumption that those who have to maintain one's carefully crafted
- > code will use (or even have access to) the vi editor, or any other
- > given tool, is flawed. Unfortunately, it smacks of elitism and perhaps
- > a professional desire to keep out the 'ill-informed'. [For precedents,
- > look at the legal and medical professions.]
-
- But we can (I hope) assume that someone maintaining our code will have access
- to an editor of equivalent or greater power, with many of the same features.
- I know that both vi and emacs and do token searches ("\<i\>"-like), so why
- would anyone later on *not* be using something with an equivalent?
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