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Re: CHAT: The ridiculously stupid, offtopic HCI thread.

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, September 3, 2004, 22:56
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:30:29PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> There's a very interesting comparison of ed, vi, emacs, Sam, and wily > (two GUI-based editors in the same spirit) at > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/complexitychapter.html .
Thanks for the cool link. Must remember to buy that book. One interesting tidbit I learned from perusing it - that UTF-8 was originally developed for Plan 9. I had no idea, and I know more obscure Unicode/Unix/Plan 9 trivia than most. :) -Marcos