[RndTbl] The Oldest Rivalry in Computing

Tue May 13 14:55:02 CDT 2014

> Computer Scientists (and old-time vi aficionados) love to optimize things
like this... :)

Even if it doesn't produce more obfuscated code?  :)

Hartmut Sager

On 13 May 2014 14:39, Gilbert E. Detillieux <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> On 13/05/2014 2:08 PM, Michael Doob wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:42:28 -0500
>>> From: John Lange <john at johnlange.ca>
>>> To: "Roundtable, MUUG" <Roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
>>> Subject: [RndTbl] The Oldest Rivalry in Computing
>>>
>>> This mailing list is the only place I can think of where I could possibly
>>> share this article:
>>>
>>> "Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among
>>> programmers for 40 years."
>>>
>>> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/
>>> oldest_software_rivalry_emacs_and_vi_two_text_editors_used_
>>> by_programmers.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>> ...
>
>> Note that the author's vi example to put quotes around lines:
>>
>> %s/\(^\|$\)/\"/g
>>
>> only works if ^ .ne. $, that is, the line is nonempty.
>>
>> (Sorry, mathematicians just love to point out things like this).
>>
>
> Maybe this would work better...
>
> %s/.*/"&"/
>
> It's a lot briefer, and IMHO, more obvious.
>
> Computer Scientists (and old-time vi aficionados) love to optimize things
> like this... :)
>
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