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But only because you graciously spent the time making me rewrite my rewrites :-).

Yes. I'm even claiming that there won't be "developers of tomorrow" because we won't be breeding them. It takes years to train most of them in an environment where mistakes are allowed. This GUI poo doesn't give anybody the opportunity to make mistakes and experiment because you are only allowed the choices listed on the menus.

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But they don't even have to go belly up; it's their practice to dump file format interpretations. It appears that others are copying this business plan by completely losing internal knowledge of how to do the work.

We haven't invented one that has the versatility of a keyboard. Granted, I haven't watched a teenager use these instant messaging thingies. I'll have to try to get into a situation where I can watch a kid use it at length and watch how s-he thinks when using it.

puzzled emoticon here Is it possible to explain this? I don't think I understand.

That's a muthaf***in big rat. ;-)

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You're talking about non-character input where the shape of the input is the data rather than the bit patterns that map to a particular computer task.

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OK.

My experience is based on the "speed" it takes me to point the f***ing glyph. I never point-click; I always aim-point-aim-point-aim-point

That's because you're not trying to map bit patterns to tones. late

TECO is preferable because I can tell it to read-only and believe that I never will destroy the contents of the file I'm looking at. TECO defeats Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle...and Murphy's Law with my ERFOO.BAR$Y-5TT$$

BAH

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