From: Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com)
Date: 05/20/93


From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Want to write a word processor ? (this was tried with troff)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 22:17:43 GMT

In article <1993May20.043437.263@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
: farrow@spot.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
:
: >Here's something I just saw the other day that relates to the ongoing
: >conversation about a WYSIWYG TeX word processor.
:
: >In article <QUANSTRO.93May4124018@eden.eecs.nwu.edu> quanstro@eden.eecs.nwu.edu (goon) writes:
: > In article <C6H8pI.HGv@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
: > First: Windows DOES come with more powerful, to a luser, tools. Write
: > is 1000 times more useful in writing an essay then EMACS/VI, Draw is
: > better then xfig (unless you have major time to waste figuring it out),
: > and cardfile is more useful then Perl (same disclaimer).
:
: more useful than perl ? pagan blasphemy !!!!!!
: :-) :-)

Well, actually, none of those are very useful for unplugging my toilet.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com