Re: *nix general surgeon advises flames may warp and coding is dangerous to your health

From	Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID>
Subject	Re: *nix general surgeon advises flames may warp and coding is dangerous to your health
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
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Message-ID	<pan.2011.04.15.16.34.36@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> (permalink)
Date	2011-04-15 16:34 +0000
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Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:20:33 +0000, Sylvain Robitaille did cat :

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:39:29 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 
>>> When I refer to "the shell", I mean "any shell that a human would use
>>> on purpose".  That is to say certainly not one that bears any
>>> resemblance to ksh ...  ;-)
>>
>>    IOW, [t]csh?
> 
> For interactive use, yes (tcsh).  Generally for scripting I try to keep
> to Bourne-shell compatible syntax, but I wouldn't want to use
> sh/ksh/bash/etc as an interactive shell.
> 
> Wow!  I realize that now that we're done with that, we might want to
> have a go at Emacs vs "Vi and derivatives" vs "the standard Unix text
> editor"!  ;-)

You're right, I didn't imagine my tiny wink about "the shell" would have 
triggered the third secession war but now as you chose a real good topic
I'd only say that Emacs used to be good, I used it circa 1982 or 3 on a
pretty amber VTsomething using an APL keyboard and it was nice to have an
editor that helped to lessen the burden, though it was quite nice too to
have a terminal with programmable keys that helped to lessen the burden
about meta-meta-combinations ;-)

But since then Emacs turned on to a huge Simon game trying to puff itself
as an OS just like Vim tries its best to paint by numbers while you just
hope to type some code quietly, so in short, there's nothing that comes
close to STeVie or ElVis...

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  Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-10 03:58 -0400
    Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-13 15:09 +0000
      Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-13 17:04 +0000
        Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-13 17:15 +0000
          Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-13 18:36 +0000
        Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-13 18:20 +0000
          Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> - 2011-04-13 18:34 +0000
            Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@deletethis.AcadiaU.ca> - 2011-04-13 19:36 -0300
            Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 10:27 -0400
              Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> - 2011-04-14 17:47 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 13:55 -0400
                Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> - 2011-04-14 20:29 +0000
              Re: *nix general purpose database (going OT testing pre-easter mead) Mike Jones <luck@dasteem.invalid> - 2011-04-14 17:48 +0000
      Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 10:21 -0400
        Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-14 15:27 +0000
          Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 11:34 -0400
            Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-14 16:54 +0000
              Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 14:02 -0400
                Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-14 18:54 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-04-14 22:20 +0200
                Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-14 21:20 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-04-15 00:17 +0200
                Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-15 14:38 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 18:41 -0400
                Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-15 14:36 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 10:39 -0400
                Re: *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-15 15:20 +0000
                Re: *nix general surgeon advises flames may warp and coding is dangerous to your health Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-15 16:34 +0000
                Re: *nix general surgeon advises flames may warp and coding is dangerous to your health Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-15 18:00 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-15 09:57 +0200
            Re: *nix general purpose database Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2011-04-14 16:57 +0000
              Re: *nix general purpose database "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-04-14 22:30 +0200
                Re: *nix general purpose database Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2011-04-15 19:02 +0000
                Re: *nix general purpose database John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-04-15 15:26 -0500
          Re: *nix general purpose database Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-14 16:42 +0000
    Re (2): *nix general purpose database no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-18 16:36 +0000
      Re: Re (2): *nix general purpose database Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2011-04-18 17:04 +0000
  Re: *nix general purpose database Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2011-04-11 18:33 +0000
    Re: *nix general purpose database Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-12 17:22 +0200
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