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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d1df6bc3799debed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: Not intended for use in medical, Date: 1997/05/15 Message-ID: <5lec80$3n6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 241659339 References: <3.0.32.19970423164855.00746db8@mail.4dcomm.com> <3379C7C0.41C67EA6@spam.innocon.com> Organization: Prism Systems Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >Jeff Carter said > ><the only tools were an Ada compiler (this was before 1995, so it was an >Ada-83 compiler in today's parlance), UNIX, and vi (that's right, not >even a source-level debugger), I view all claims that "this problem is >solved by better tools" with a jaundiced eye.>> > >Someone chose these tools, and I would blame the chooser rather than the >tools. You certainly had better development tools than this avaiable >to you. Some of us wouldn't have it any other way. Vi is by far the best text mangler there is. At least the core concept behind vi. The implementation is dead---the freeware clones like Vim are far better and offer significant advancements over their SVR4 shadow. Then again, I'm a masochist. I'm typing on an amber-screen terminal that I got for $5 from some hacker years ago. The date on its ``motherboard'' is 1985. The high-resolution monitor connected to my machine is turned off. I hate its instant refresh rate. I like to see the optimized text redraws at 19200 baud (if the thing was a real WYSE rather than a Tandy clone, it would probably take the 38400). It sort of gives me a better sense of where I am in the text and where I'm going. Plus I like the color. Who needs 16.7 million colors, when you can shatter them all with that exquisitely perfect hue of amber? Ah, ever the incorrigible fanatic.