Re: The Worst Text Editor

From: Dave Hansen (iddw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:59:12 GMT

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:28:36 GMT, "Nicholas O. Lindan" <see@sig.com>
wrote:

[...]
>
>Intel had a pretty awful one, Credit(?), that should have
>been called 'Bankrupt'.

When I first used CREDIT , about 1983, I thought I'd died and went to
heaven. Of course, the only other editors I'd used to that time were
line editors (or worse), along the lines of (and including) MS-DOS'
edlin. CREDIT (which stood for something like CRt EDITor) was a
full-screen editor, and allowed me to move the cursor wherever I
wanted and just start typing (or deleting). Stone simple and very
intuitive.

I did get angry with it one day, though. Our MDS systems had two
floppy drives, one containing the ISIS system software (including
CREDIT), and the other free for data. I spent about two hours
composing a report. When I was done, I tried to save the file. I
neglected to specify the data disk, so CREDIT tried to save it to the
system disk. No room. CREDIT dies with an error message. Work gone.
Sigh.

The second version of the report was much better, though. I guess
Fred Brooks' advice to "write one to throw away" applies to reports as
well. It was a "lessons learned" memo written just before I left a
completed project to start on a new one. The new project had EMACS.
I never looked back.

Regards,

                               -=Dave 

-- 
Change is inevitable, progress is not.

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