[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/17/16 1:39 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Den 2016-11-17 kl. 15:06, skrev Bob Koehler:
>>> In article <o0iuam$kpd$2 at gioia.aioe.org>,
>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Notepad++ and Atom seems to be preferred general editors
>>>> these days.
>>>
>>>    Preferred by who?  Nobody around here.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and that is part of the general problem.
>> Many here still lives in the past. Doesn't work
>> as well today as it did in the past...
>>
>
> Don't know about that.  I'm thinking that everything I do today is based
> on the past.  As far as I can tell, things that have been around for a
> while still do everything they did when first developed.

Somethings they even do better than what is available today, but one
thing I have learned about our business is that old is always bad and
even if the path your on is headed for the end of a cliff you never
go back and try the other path that was probably the right one in the
first place.

>
> I have no problem adopting better methods, things, and such.  It's what
> I've always done in the past, "the past" being everything up to each
> letter I type. But I will not adopt anything, just because it's new.  It
> must show itself to be better, better enough for me to abandon what I
> already have learned.

Dave, it may scare you but there are definitely some things that we
share the same thoughts on.

bill