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[Yarko Tymciurak]

(...hate frickin' Swype...)
On Apr 24, 2013 7:39 PM, "Yarko Tymciurak" <yarkot1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> cat - > ...
>
> is distracting, and will result in poor code.  You cannot consistently
> track your word count, _and_ focus in the structure if your code.
>
> Everyone knows the wary to go is:
>
> ed filename
> a
> .
> w
>
> Only then can you be sure to keep to <page of code at a time (~1,500
> characters).
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2013 5:32 PM, "Brian Toby" <Brian.Toby at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Kenneth Stox wrote:
>>
>> cat - > filename is all that is really needed.
>>
>> Editors are for people who just couldn't handle punchcards.
>>
>>
>> In that case, pry out the backspace key from your keyboard. The IBM 029
>> did not have one of those. Press the wrong key, discard the card. Copy and
>> paste between cards: sure, but only if the columns line up.
>>
>> The only thing I miss from the old kilobyte days is having a complete set
>> of VAX manuals -- that explained *everything* along with programming
>> examples in several languages -- instead of today's "undocumented
>> features", but nothing could get me to go back to computing with punch
>> cards.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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