Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700 > Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote: > >> It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with >> the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her >> fired five minutes later. With no severance package. > > Viewed in the context of the time when it was originally created, it's a work > of genius. There's a reason why it became the default text editor on Unix > systems. I don't deny that. Interlaced video, at the time it was invented, was a great idea. Now it's a huge harassment for anyone doing video processing. The steam engine was a huge step forward - a few hundred years ago. And look at it now. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/