Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:47:36 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:07 AM 3/21/05 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:

>Never done a chat room and the one time I saw IRC logs (?) they made
>absolutely no sense, guess one has to be there to understand them.

"Chat rooms" are an AOL invention, so I've never seen one.  I hear the
concept has leaked out onto some web pages, but I haven't gone looking for
those either.

I looked into several IRC channels a while back, and I didn't have any
problem understanding what was being said (I speak acronym), but I rapidly
lost interest as there wasn't anything being said in any of them.  It
reminded me a great deal of the "conversation" I once saw in a movie
(Jungle Book?) where there were some buzzards sitting on a branch
discussing what to do.  Looked a bit like this:

"What do you want to do?"

"I dunno.  What do you want to do?"

"I don't care, I'll do whatever you want to do."

"Well, I don't care either...whatever you like is fine with me."

"I dunno.  What do you want to do?"

<rinse, repeat>

>There are times when I have fond memories of WordStar 3.0

What was wrong with edlin??  ;-)

Personally, I like TPU, but that only works on VMS.  Most powerful text
editor I've ever used.  Helped write a full-featured news reader in it for
instance (a tiny bit of C code was required to handle the socket interface,
the rest was in TPU macros).

Before anyone jumps in and mentions emacs, I've never liked, or used,
emacs.  I tried using it a couple of times, but the command set rapidly
exceeded my memory ability for storing random strings of meaningless
characters.  Sort of like teco that way.  Emacs is at least as powerful as
TPU, but for me, unusable due to the user interface "design" and choice of
macro programming language (which I've been told is LISP...I nearly
sprained my brain once trying to figure out how to write code in that
thing...CAR, CDR, CONS...).

-- Mike B.

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