Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[Jerry Feldman]

The Unix standard screen oriented editor has been vi for a long time. Emacs 
was never part of any standard Unix, but was most always provided as an 
addon. 
I have always advocated that Unix (and Linux) professionals be well versed 
in vi. Beyond that it is up to the invididual, and possibly the project and 
installation. I once did a contract at a company where they did not want to 
install emacs, but installed this other product which purported to be emacs 
 compatible. Not only was it not emacs compatible, it crashed more 
frequently than Windows 9x. My contract was dependent on that company's 
client obtaining venture capital. Had that occurred I would have insisted 
on GNU emacs being installed. 
On 15 Nov 2002 at 10:13, Price, Erik wrote:
> But at work, the Solaris box appears only to have vi (not even vim).  So, I learn to adjust.

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