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Article #1378Re: AHEM! (was Re: Emacs)
From: b... Barry Shein
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 03:18
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 03:18
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(the only purpose of this comment is to flame someone out there)
I suppose you can tell Unix has arrived when self-proclaimed
illuminati have taken the "small is beautiful" ethos and reduced
it to:
% ls -l /usr/ucb/vi /usr/local/bin/emacs
-rwxrwxr-x 1 spike 794624 Nov 13 14:01 /usr/local/bin/emacs
-rwxr-xr-x 6 root 196608 Apr 24 1989 /usr/ucb/vi
emacs > vi THEREFORE vi > emacs. QED.
(or whatever it is they're concluding, fill in the verb.)
Gee, I really wish software quality measurement was so simple...I
guess these are the same folks who go out and buy the (most/least)
expensive car they can find on the assumption that price==value.
(not to mention falling for cup-and-a-half of flavor advertisements)
--
-Barry Shein
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!lll-winken!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!world!bzs From: b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: AHEM! (was Re: Emacs) Message-ID: <1990Feb13.031811.3909@world.std.com> Date: 13 Feb 90 03:18:11 GMT References: <21743@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <51073@bbn.COM> <6194@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <4534@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <2878@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <4345@brazos.Rice.edu> <4983@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4829@convex.convex.com> <15411@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <5062@convex.c Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 25 Posted: Tue Feb 13 04:18:11 1990 In-Reply-To: datri@convex.com's message of 1 Feb 90 16:54:14 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit