In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/28/2007
at 10:20 AM, "Eric N. Bielefeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I still think that what you learned first and grew up on determines
>what editor you like best.
I grew up on punched cards. I wrote my own card-oriented editors. I
used ATS before XEDIT. I used FSE before XEDIT. I encountered SPF
before XEDIT. I wanted SPF when I was using XEDIT, but that didn't
blind me to the faults of SPF or to the useful features of XEDIT. And
BTW, the editor I'm using on my PC is[1] Tritus SPF, an ISPF clone.
So, no, when I say something nice about XEDIT it's not because I
encountered it first, but because it's true. Of course, I have also
criticized it as well. If anything I'm prejudiced in favor of the
latest and greatest, but only when it really is an improvement.
[1] I'll probably start using THE as well when I get around to
configuring it. But I'll abandon TSPF when they pry it out of my
cold dead fingers.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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