Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT: Text editors Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <87pq7fqhlh.fsf@benfinney.id.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1343598073 4215 24.118.110.103 (29 Jul 2012 21:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:41:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26214 On 2012-07-29, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Point taken, snag being I've never used any nix box in anger. This > thread reminds of the good 'ole days when I were a lad using TPU on > VMS. Have we got any VMS aficionados here? It's been a long time, but I used eve/tpu as my main editor for several years back when I did embedded SW development on VMS. I was an ex-Unix user, so I used DECShell a lot -- even though it was painfully slow. The entire Unix philosophy is based on the assumption that process creation is inexpensive, and I was told process creation on VMS was _very_ expensive, so Bourne shell scripts that would have taken second under Unix took minutes under VMS. -- Grant