From: hc05@summitis.com (Beirne Konarski)
To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Sam mailing list)
Subject: Why people like sam
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 00:12:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9312110410.AA32090@rexsrvr2.summitis.com> (raw)
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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1993-12-11 5:12 Beirne Konarski [this message]
1993-12-11 11:31 ` Peter Collinson
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