* Why people like sam
@ 1993-12-11 5:12 Beirne Konarski
1993-12-11 11:31 ` Peter Collinson
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From: Beirne Konarski @ 1993-12-11 5:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sam mailing list
Well, I put out a message a month ago asking why people liked sam, since I
couldn't see any benefits to it. No one told me why, but it was recommended
that I get some of the extension patches. I installed samx-2, which made the
editor usable on a daily basis, and I think I now understand. The key is that
sam is designed to be fun for programmers. In this case the fun is having a
puzzle to solve every few minutes as you try to figure out how to achieve a
modification with regular expressions. This is turning out to be more
interesting than a lot of my real work.
Beirne
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* Re: Why people like sam
1993-12-11 5:12 Why people like sam Beirne Konarski
@ 1993-12-11 11:31 ` Peter Collinson
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From: Peter Collinson @ 1993-12-11 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Beirne Konarski; +Cc: sam-fans
Editors are a religious topic.
Whether you like them or not is probably irrational.
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