Re: Oracle: Naked King in database land?

"Hans Forbrich" <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:3E8B39B8.7E360786_at_telusplanet.net...

> I take exception to that ... vi happens to be the world's best "character
> manipulator" and attempts to degrade it to the class of "editor" simply is
> wrong!

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So there were two guys sitting in a bar, and one says to the other, "That was a very intelligent remark you just made. What's your IQ?". The other guy says, "178." The first guy says, "Well, mine's 182.", and they go on to have a great discussion of the newest developments in the grand unification theories in physics.

A couple of seats down, two other guys overhear the discussion, so one turns to the other and says, "My IQ's 101." The other says, "Well, mine's 99. How do you think the 49ers are going to do this year?" And they begin to become great friends.

At the far end of the bar, both conversations are overheard by a third pair. One says to the other, "My IQ's 48." The other says, "Great, mine's 45. Do you use Emacs or vi?"
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That old joke perfectly reflects my own experience: there is no vi feature which suggests that its creator had IQ more than 50. The world moved since then, and no decent editor today require a user remembering silly and counter intuitive commands anymore. Why are you guys so vigorously defending this old piece of junk? Received on Wed Apr 02 2003 - 19:39:56 CST