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From:	hc05@summitis.com (Beirne Konarski)
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Subject: Why people like sam
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Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 1993 00:12:05 -0500

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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