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Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed [message #43330 is a reply to message #43328]

Thu, 31 March 2005 08:41

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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savoie@nsidc.org writes:

> I would have just taken vacation, or more likely sick. When my emacs is
> crippled it's like trying to program with crayons, or I imagine it's like
> punch cards.

At least with punch cards, you learned to think. Younger
programmers, lacking the discipline of heavy typewriter keys and
unforgiving chads, tend to type first and think later, it
seems to me. Perhaps that's what RSI has in mind with the
standard UNIX interface---slow everyone down and give them
a chance to write better programs. Good on ya', as the Aussies
say! :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 March 2005 14:22
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: K. Bowman on Thu, 31 March 2005 13:36
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 March 2005 08:41
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Thu, 31 March 2005 08:13
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 31 March 2005 07:09
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: JD Smith on Wed, 30 March 2005 12:53
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:33
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:13
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:07
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 March 2005 08:59

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