Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 02:24:26 -0500, c186282 wrote:

   Almost the FIRST thing I did with the new IBM-PC/MSDOS PC was to
   write a full-screen editor kinda like 'nano'
   (in ASM) so I'd never have to use EDLIN or anything like it. DESPISE
   line editors - REMOVE them from all my Linux distros so they won't
   accidentally come up.

About the first thing I did with MSDOS was buy Brief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)

I was upset when Borland bought it and never did anything with it.

I'd had vi on CP/M but used the Wordstar that was bundled with the
system.  Finally Vim came along. 'Improved' is an understatement compared
to vanilla vi.