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Simon--er, no...it was Jay Ashworth--said:
> > What tools can be defined as standard.
> 
> "The tools that ship with my distribution."

Oh, -that's- misleading.  Christ, have you compared GNU gettext to say,
gettext that ships with Solaris?

> Excuse me: "The tools that ship with my *Linux* distribution."

I repeat...  And that's -one- example.  :)

> Yeah; vim doesn't have that problem; I've successfully read and written
> multi-megabyte files with 3 (count 'em, 3) LF's.

I've done the same.  However, I was doing it in emacs before vim existed
and when vi couldn't.  :)

> > But as I look at things changing things for reasons such as 'easier
> > to use', 'use standard tools' 'everyone else does it like that' is
> > always the successful way.   My POV is that if you are going to
> > change don't follow the world, find a better way of doing things,
> > as being a copycat is not usually the way to financial success.

Tell that to all the vendors with PC clones.  :)

> Depends on your goals.

I don't play that "fake" Euro football, so I have no goals.  :)

Oh, wait...I do occasionally watch NHL.  I recant.  :)

That line about having no goals sounds like something I'd put on one of
those self-appraisal questionaires like my wife's company handed out.  What
a load of BS questions.  "My goals?  Uhm, getting paid enough to keep health
insurance and a modicum of the amenities, what the heck do you THINK my
goals are?"  Companies (especially beaurocracies) ask the dumbest questions.

mark->
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