How do *REAL* programmers work?

[Erik Price]

On Feb 14, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Ted Roche wrote:

> Going from a text-based word processor, like
> WordPerfect 4.1, to a GUI word processor, like MS Write or Word, was a 
> great
> step backwards, as the graphical appearance - fonts, bold, point size,
> margins - became of more concern than finishing a good thought. Much 
> too
> distracting, imo.

I agree w/this - I find it far easier to compose text in a text editor 
or a minimalist word processor like TextEdit (which is essentially a 
NeXT-based text editor with RTF capability).  Plain text files archive 
better than a word processor format, to boot.


Erik