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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 04/03/2025 07:24, c186282 wrote:
>> REMOVE them from all
>>   my Linux distros so they won't accidentally come up.
> 
> Sadly in my days programming *other peoples* UNIX systems for money, 
> they only thing you could rely on was vi.
> 
> No point in even learning EMACS if it wasn't on the system
> 
> So I got good at vi. In order not to starve

I got so I could at least use vi, because it is ubiquitous. 

-- 
Pete