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I'm showing my age but one of my early compsci courses the only editor available on the lab systems (at least the only editor we had access to) was ed. After 4
by Ensorceled 4y ago
I'm showing my age but one of my early compsci courses the only editor available on the lab systems (at least the only editor we had access to) was ed.
After 4 months, I went on a co-op term and vi was VERY nice to use if you had 4 months of intense training in regular expressions and substitution patterns using ed.
- gcanyon 4y agoAt my second job there was a debate between the programmers. ed was too basic. vi was a resource hog and slow. Given the computing power I have accessible now, it's like looking back on a time when people debated the speed of horses vs. how much oats they ate.
- Ensorceled 4y agoYeah, my first "real job" we had 5 developers working on a single unix workstation with attached graphics hardware that we time shared. I carry in my pocket a 4 year old computer with 3 orders of magnitude more ram, storage and processing power.