Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 06:16:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now what would you expect this to print out? Message-ID: <874p8t8y1k.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200805191240.47144.jonathan@hst.org.za> (Jonathan McKeown's message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 12:40:46 %2B0200") References: <7d6fde3d0805190149y7a3bfa75j2ca6a67cef66e8f6@mail.gmail.com> <20080519094603.GC12033@osiris.chen.org.nz> <200805191240.47144.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:40:46 +0200, Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> wrote: > I forget where I saw this quote first, but the last five words always > make me think of the find command: > > Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as > bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer > wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, > powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. The page at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html suggests that this quote is from ``A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983.'' The author of that page writes ``I've long ago lost my dog-eared photocopy, but I believe this was written (and is copyright) by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville OR USA,'' so it may be a bit tricky to verify the claim.
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