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		parasti on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ed is the standard text editor (2014) Just keep it in your head. ed must have been a decent upgrade from punched cards.

rbanffy on July 7, 2022 [–]

As a line editor, it’s pretty much editing a deck of punch cards.

This metaphor, BTW, persists on a lot of mainframe related tasks where, while you see lines on a screen, the computer is reasoning about punch cards.

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