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Kenneth <klshafer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I use an Olde-Fa****onede Unix shell account (it used to be dial-up but
>> with modern technology I telnet into it) upon which I run trn; it is
>> configured so that when I press 'F' to reply my editor is pico.
>>
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>Do you still do your web-surfing with Lynx? :-)
More that I should, probably... it's just... *there*, you know, and so
fast.
>
>Ahhh, yes, DocDwarf, your RealProgrammer[tm] credentials are
>impeccable...
Pish, tosh and piffle... that I use pico instead of vi places me Beyond
the Pale in some folks' books. I am Olde Schoole enough so that I prefer
columns of numbers to graphs, charts and diagrams... but even during Olde
Schoole days there were folks who made better sense with and out of lines
and colors than I could.
I recall, back when I was a student of chemistry, spending time with a
lass who was studying art... at times we would sit together and do
homework. She'd grab a piece of charcoal and a sheet of paper, move her
hand... and there would appear something that actually... *looked* like
something; I'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
you *do* that?'
I'd be doing something like... balancing stochastic equations, looking at
charts, scribbling out lines combining capital and lower-case letters,
subscripts, superscripts, parentheses and equal-signs... and she'd watch
me flip through pages, look up at the ceiling, and generate a flow of
these symbols...
.... and she'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
you *do* that?'
Apples are not oranges, bananas are not nectarines, grapes and
pineapple-cubes are likewise disparate... and yet, at times, Life can be a
wonderful fruit-salad.
DD
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