Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:44:31 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 04/03/2025 07:24, c186282 wrote:

REMOVE them from all
  my Linux distros so they won't accidentally come up.

 
Sadly in my days programming *other peoples* UNIX systems for money,
they only thing you could rely on was vi.
 
No point in even learning EMACS if it wasn't on the system
 
So I got good at vi. In order not to starve

 
I got so I could at least use vi, because it is ubiquitous.

I started off (line editors aside) with something called Perfect Writer on
my first PC (compatible). It was a very detuned EMACS, with fixed
bindings. I later graduated to MicroEMACS, which I still use (well,
occasionally real EMACS).

For ubiquitous, I fall back to the editor I learned in 1975 - ed.



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