From: Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The vi editor causes brain damage
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:29:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <956669.87667.qm@web52507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070819061524.GT21089@ftp.linux.org.uk>
--- Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:20:34PM -0700, Marc
> Perkel wrote:
> > Let me give you and example of the difference
> between
> > Linux open source world brain damaged thinking and
> > what it's like out here in the real world.
>
> [snip]
>
> Marc, why don't you do the obvious thing and hire
> Jeff Merkey?
> He used to work on netware kernel, you are a netware
> fanboy...
> Hell, he might even share - his peyotl for whatever
> you are on;
> it certainly has... intriguing effects, so who knows
> - maybe the
> mix will give the right kind of out-of-box
> experience for you ;-)
>
hmmmmm .....
So if you take Peyote then you think of things like
"rm *" should delete all the files in a folder and if
you're not on drugs then del from DOS being better
than rm in Linux is OK.
For what it's worth. I agree it seems to be that way.
I tried Peyote once about 25 years ago and it was
fantastic.
Marc Perkel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-19 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-19 5:20 Marc Perkel
2007-08-19 6:15 ` Al Viro
2007-08-19 6:29 ` Marc Perkel [this message]
2007-08-19 4:24 ` hotmetal
2007-08-19 13:07 ` Marc Perkel
2007-08-19 7:15 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-08-19 7:21 ` [OT] " Willy Tarreau
2007-08-19 12:31 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-08-19 12:39 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-08-19 13:07 ` variable length argument support (was: [OT] Re: The vi editor causes brain damage) Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-19 14:40 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-08-19 13:22 ` The vi editor causes brain damage Marc Perkel
2007-08-19 13:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-08-19 14:06 ` Jose Celestino
2007-08-19 14:48 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-08-19 15:32 ` Marc Perkel
2007-08-19 17:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-19 23:03 ` Michael Tharp
2007-08-20 1:55 ` Casey Dahlin
2007-08-19 13:55 ` [OT] " Torsten Duwe
2007-08-19 13:08 ` Marc Perkel
2007-08-19 20:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-20 9:41 Tim Tassonis
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