[RndTbl] EMACS :-)

[Hartmut W Sager]

My favourite: parentheses paralysis

I spend all my time in my Vedit text editor.  Advantages:

1.  Discontinued.  No further money to be spent on upgrades.
2.  Storage efficiency.  A byte is a byte is a byte.  No UTF-8 (or similar), so a character is a byte is a byte.
3.  32-bit app.  Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps.
4.  Installed version is totally portable.  Run from USB stick, anywhere.

Oh, when I'm not in Vedit, I'm in my accounting software, written in Visual FoxPro 9 (final version).  Advantages:

1.  Discontinued.  No further money to be spent on upgrades.
2.  Flexible.  I keep programming upgrades into it as the need arises.
3.  Uses .DBF files.  So data is always recoverable through a real text editor.
4.  32-bit app.  Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps.
5.  Unintelligible to accountants (and to everyone else too).  So, I can never be audited.  Take that, CRA!
6.  No user interface.  So, nobody else can ever operate it.

Oh, when I'm not using the above 2 items, I'm in ZTree, my file manager.  Advantages:

1.  More-or-less discontinued.  No further money to be spent on upgrades.
2.  Installed version is totally portable.  Run from USB stick, anywhere.

That's my off-the-cuff contribution to this humour thread.

Hartmut

On Mon 21 Aug 2023 at 14:07:56 -05:00, Bradford C. Vokey <brad at fsi.ca> wrote:
> That was fun!
> 
> Best LOL lines:
> 
> 1) "2 words: org mode. I use to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org mode latex and just accept that it's impossible."
> 
> 2) "Yeah I fought in the Vim Emacs Wars."
> 
> 
> 3) 
>  - "Interviewer: I think Vim has quite a nice tutorial."
>  - "Enthusiast: I don't remember."
>  - "Interviewer: Remember what?"
>  - "Enthusiast: I don't remember asking for your opinion."
> 
> 4) "You want my Emacs configuration? Look, this is a life of work - one does not simply share his Emacs configuration."
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bradford C. Vokey
> 
> Treasurer
> Manitoba Unix User Group
> 
> 
> 
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