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From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment
Summary: tools should be decent
Message-ID: <290@hobbit.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 5 Jul 88 15:05:26 GMT
References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <449@jonlab.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In article <449@jonlab.UUCP>, jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
# As an employer, if I see that an employee (that's what the students
# will be trying to become) lists UNIX experience on their resume, I
# expect that employee to be able to work with the standard tools.  If
# they can be more productive by using non-standard tools, wonderful.
# But the choice of supplying/not supplying that tool is ultimately
# mine.  But the student/prospective employee should be prepared to
# work in whichever environment I supply.  Vi experience does that
# for the student.

An employee should be given the right tool for the job. It is doubtful
whether vi is the right tool. It has a very idiosyncratic user interface
(so has emacs). 

Ge' Weijers (mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge)
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Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands
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