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CountMike said:

After so many years of Unix, believe me, I'm not too keen on it either.

Don't get me started. I got a Raspberry PI running retropie and simple things sometimes require the command line so I end up giving up on the project.

CountMike said:

Yeah great, some of my favorites, writing a small novel just to format a diskette and expanding space for data base files because of finite sizes.

reddice said:

Don't get me started. I got a Raspberry PI running retropie and simple things sometimes require the command line so I end up giving up on the project.

Don't get me wrong....but I have no problem with the command line. It's extremely useful for certain tasks. That's why I'm into PowerShell these days. But as I said...for certain things only!!

ddelo said:

Why is that Mike? Wasn't vi a wonderful and intuitive tool?

For Quiche eaters, maybe...

..EMACS and VI are probably the most well known of this class of editors. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in text editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.

It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse -- introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

Disclaimer: I have actually used TECO.

Steve C said:

I assume you never had to program using assembly language?

What - new fangled assembler - we used to do binary direct in shoebox at bottom of garden.

Wow- a shoebox with AI!

Hmm, memories of two-pass assembler with paper tape...with a CP1600 microprocessor and a whole 8kbytes of RAM per PCB = 64kbytes total. Shugart 8" disks (1.25Mb per disk) came later...

dalchina said:

Wow- a shoebox with AI!

Hmm, memories of two-pass assembler with paper tape...with a CP1600 microprocessor and a whole 8kbytes of RAM per PCB = 64kbytes total. Shugart 8" disks (1.25Mb per disk) came later...

Backup was a pain in storage space, all those carton boxes !!!!

I remember being shown that.. the IT guy was really impressed with the access time.