Re: [SLUG] Vi is for newbies

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 03:16:03AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> Matt,
> 	Your post may have been in jest, but i did not take it as
> such. And no, Emacs definetly didn't win the debate, 2 or 3 people voted
> for emacs, and the rest of the room (or it seemed to be) voted for
> vi. Now, as a vi (and vim) user, i may dislike emacs, but that doesn't

Actually I think that is because Raz reminded everyone at the end
that the emacs teams were arguing the *affirmative*; that vi is for
newbies.

So the vi team won on technical grounds. In reality though I think both
teams won. I found the emacs team very convincing (I use both daily btw);
I'll be using Emacs more for sure. I think a better topic should have been 
selected myself (although I'm to blame for that one being selected :-/ ).

That would have allowed each team to argue their strengths (the topic
basically asked each team to argue the weakness of its editor).

I wonder if perhaps the best thing to do would be to have each side
simply present their strengths. Instead of deciding the "winner" as we did
last week; a better way would be to see who is going to try either of
the editors/other religious war topic.

Thoughts?

Anand

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