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teddyh on Aug 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex...

And I believe the point of Kernighan, as well as Torvalds, is that the difficulty of debugging serves as a bulwark against over-complicated code.

frou_dh on Aug 13, 2022 [–]

So that's why ed(1) is the standard text editor. Anything more usable is a dangerous extravagance! :)

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