From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc94896f23dccfae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 14:02:15 PST Message-ID: <3E6672A3.2030605@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:56:51 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1046901411 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:56:51 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:56:51 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34940 Date: 2003-03-05T16:56:51-05:00 List-Id: Dave Head wrote: > "Frank J. Lhota" wrote in message > news:JZo9a.25710$8f7.21367@nwrdny02.gnilink.net... > >>Would WordStar have survived if it was rewritten in Ada? > > > No. The thing that killed WordStar is having to memorize all those keyboard > key combinations. Nobody wants to do that. Its also why EMACS hasn't taken > over the world's programming consoles except on those owned by people with > really, really good memories. > > Dave Head Ha! I have a lousy memory, but EMACS is where I live. "Those keyboard combinations" are perfectly natural responses, after all! ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg