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Jordan Bettis
jordanb@hafd.org
Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:22:04 -0600
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:31:45PM -0600, Nate Riffe wrote:
> guys are exactly analogous to Jordan with Emacs and Jesse with vim.
Um, I'm not party to this flamewar, please leave me out of it.
> Yes, they could probably drive each other's cars, but they could not
I do use vi every so often. It does suck.
> win races in anything other than their own. Therefore they swear by
> their car, and the engine in it, without even considering the
> possibility that the other engine might be just as good, only
> different. Dale Earnhart is dead now, and so is this thread.
Auto-racing is a hick sport anyway.
--
Jordan Bettis <http://www.hafd.org/~jordanb>
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure
progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the
grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
-- Alan J Perlis: Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN 1982