[Tutor] Re: pair programming.

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> The biggest problem with modality in vi*'s is that you may be in
> command mode but think you're in insert and type some stuff which
> will garble your text in a scary random-looking manner. 

> I myself never found this to be much of a problem, but I know some
> people do..

Those folks obviously never used Tico... ;-)

The standard programmers game in Tico was to type your name and 
try to guess what the effect would be on your code(*)! The only good 
thing I can say about Tico is that it was so bad it drove 
James Gosling to invent the original Emacs!

Alan G.

(*)Actually on your computer since it was entirely possible to 
accidentally delete files, format disks etc by typing seemingly 
inoccuous character strings into Ticos command line interface...

PS Anyone on a Vax running VMS can still experience Tico by typing
EDIT/TICO at a DCL prompt - Good luck!!