Bob Bridges wrote, in part:
>I once spent an agonizing half-hour trying to help a Unix programmer
>code a program in a language I know using some kind of Unix editor
>that was so unintuitive I could hardly accomplish anything.

As Shmuel suggests, that sounds like vi or one of its relatives. The best 
description of vi I've ever heard is:
"vi has two modes: one where it corrupts your data, and one where it beeps at 
you."


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