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Martin Gregorie
Probably because he thinks my second group of tools are invariably theThat is somewhat true.
"designed by committee" is not always a success.
But I do still not quite understand why Gene bring op marketing when I
suggest he use tools recommended by the developer community.
result of sales guys pushing their outfit into cashing in with a copycat
development. I'd say that a lot of them are just that, but some aren't.
For instance, I doubt that there was a sales push behind either of
Microsoft's edlin or Wordpad editors, but clearly somebody thought they
were a good idea and published them despite their rather nasty UI (edlin)
and minimal capabilities (both editors). It would be interesting to know
what their development teams used for their everyday editing needs. After
all both vi and emacs predate DOS and edlin by 5 or 6 years and,
regardless of whether you love or hate their UI (which is no worse than
edlin's one), you have to admit that both are extremely capable editors
and initially ran in similarly small memories too.
BTW, I'm not deliberately kicking Microsoft for once: just using their
editors as a examples of rather poor tools that most people on this list
are likely to have used.