[ExI] Weird new way to do physics

[Kelly Anderson]

2011/11/27 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> On 27 November 2011 20:23, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As Stefano pointed out, the human interface to the first version of
>> WordPerfect was also flawed. This was because of two things. The power
>> of the "shared code" group that insisted that the Windows port use
>> large parts of the DOS program, and that they got a late start because
>> of the wish of Pete Peterson to punish Microsoft. There were a lot of
>> late nights over there when they finally figured out that Windows was
>> going to be relevant, and that OS/2 was going the way of the dodo.
>
> Any OS/2 PM version would suffer from the same probs as the Windows one: in
> such a change of paradigm only a marginal edge remained with regard to
> existing Wordperfect users.
>
> As to the "flawed" interface, I never liked it much, but given the number of
> its fanatical followers I would not not be so adamant, and personally I am a
> mourner of Wordstar, and kept using under OS/2 and Windows its DOS version -
> certainly not the Windows version, suffering from the same probs as
> Wordperfect for Windows or for Macintosh - as long as I could. Basically,
> such things had a much steeper learning curves for casual users and
> newcomers, but allowed a much more effective and extended and seemless
> control to those used to them. Word is horribly clumsy, and only its
> ill-deserved popularity can hide that. Another example of market failure...
> :-)

I really miss pe (aka pEdit), the text editor that WordPerfect made...
it rocked my world at the time. So much easier than vi.

What text editors do you use today? Not word processors, but text
editors (like Notepad, but with teeth).

-Kelly