The fact that there is no consensus on vi by itself is a reason to exclude it from the exam.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 15 okt. 2017 om 13:36 heeft Anselm Lingnau <ans...@tuxcademy.org> het > volgende geschreven: > > Harald Maaßen wrote: > >> Thanks Kenneth, could't have said it better. I only want to give one + >> to this. > > If it was up to me I'd have kicked vi out of the LPIC-1 exam five years ago – > not because I think it isn't worth knowing about, but because one can learn > everything anyone could ever conceivably need to know about vi (and then > some) > in a 20-minute session with “vimtutor” and it is stupid to ask questions on > that stuff; we don't ask people questions about the keyboard and mouse, > either. > > It's probably a good idea for budding Linux sysadmins to futz around with vi > for a while, much like engineering students are required to futz around with > hand tools for a while even if in real life they use CNC machines (and it's > nice to be able to make do with hand tools if your CNC machine has broken > down). I get the “vi is everywhere” argument, but for some considerable time > now mainstream Linux distributions have been more likely to come with > something like nano or pico, rather than vi, out of the box, so that doesn't > really hold water anymore. > > Finally, on Linux, few people if any actually use *vi*, a very primitive > editor by 21st-century standards, in their daily lives – even those people > who > *think* they're using vi generally use vim instead, which is a much more > capable program that has about as much to do with vi as an F-16 has to do > with > a Piper Cub but is not part of the official LPIC curriculum. > > I've been at this business for quite some time and I realise that in spite of > all this, the vi requirement isn't going away. I think of it as a bizarre > hazing ritual that is being forced on newbies by the old hands in the spirit > of “we had it bad, so by G*d you'll also have it bad”. There are lots of > things more worth knowing about (and examining) than vi but there apparently > needs to be some kind of disgusting tradition to separate the men from the > boys, like you can't be an Army ranger if you haven't marched thirty miles > per > day for a week with nothing to eat but earthworms that you've caught yourself. > > Anselm > -- > Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org > Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software > Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
