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Email is still widely used by billions of people whereas line editors never were.
by smadge 7y ago
Email is still widely used by billions of people whereas line editors never were.
- jefftk 7y agoEmail is still widely used, but POP is not. Text editors are still widely used but ed is not.
- smadge 7y agoMaybe, but SMTP and IMAP are still widely used. It seems reasonable for a computer science student to implement these protocols.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoYou'd expect a CS student to at least know what SMTP and IMAP are, even if they don't know how they work. Just as you'd expect a CS student to know what Emacs is, even if they've never used it. Relying on gmail horrifies me, because it's a classic political enclosure pattern.