[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:40:38PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> 
> God I'm glad that insight came when it did, or we could have had a world
> without grep but *only* with sed.
> 
> I mean, I've used sed to replace grep now and then, in limited environments
> with no grep, but, *shiver* I'd not want to do it all the time.

Hee.  You might have had problems fitting into the Bell Labs team; they
were so pleased with sed that they were quite resistant to many of the
simple text utilities developed by Unix hackers elsewhere because "sed
can do that".  Why use head when you can type 'sed 10q', after all?

-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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