On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:40:46 +0200, Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forget where I saw this quote first, but the last five words always > make me think of the find command: > > Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as > bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer > wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, > powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
The page at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html suggests that this quote is from ``A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983.'' The author of that page writes ``I've long ago lost my dog-eared photocopy, but I believe this was written (and is copyright) by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville OR USA,'' so it may be a bit tricky to verify the claim. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
