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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "'cygwin-talk@cygwin.com'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Updated: ed-1.6-1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C1D@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120423231645.GA7150@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

Christopher Faylor wrote on April 23, 2012 7:17 PM
>On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:44:23PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote on Sunday, April 22, 2012 4:59 PM
>>>I've made a new version of ed available for installation.  This version
>>>is a refresh from the currently released FSF version of this package.
>>
>>They're still updating ed!?!?!
>
>I was pretty surprised too.  I couldn't believe I'd missed several revisions.
>
>Who in the world still uses ed?

I was thinking more along the lines of "They are still finding bugs!?!?!" and
"They are still adding features!?!?!"

Can we agree that ed is a better exemplar of software that just won't go away than B20?

- Barry
  Disclaimer:  Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-23 22:44 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-23 23:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-23 23:45   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-04-24 10:26     ` Chris Sutcliffe
2012-04-24 14:36       ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24 15:02         ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-24 15:46           ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-25  3:16           ` Warren Young
2012-04-25  3:55             ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24  1:34   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] [this message]
2012-04-24  1:42     ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-26  8:39     ` Lee D. Rothstein
2012-04-26 14:41       ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-26 15:55         ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-27  2:45       ` Warren Young
2012-06-03 23:53         ` zukkoshopservice
2012-06-03 23:54           ` zukkoshopservice
2012-04-25 13:42 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-25 14:08 ` Christopher Faylor

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