On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 08:00:07PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:22:03AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > > Users like history majors and non-cs minors never edit > > their PATH because they no freakin' clue about this. > > * Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-04 15:52]: > > that's too broad a generalization. Last week I was having a > > nice chat with a fellow whose field of expertise is economics. > > He's also a well-known contributor to XEmacs... > > and i met a composer who programs in assembler > and i met a surgeon who gave courses on unix. > but these people *are* exceptions!
true. but among the population of programmers, the fraction that produce anything useful is also so small as to be negligible (certainly less than 5%). > however, there are many people who open Word to send an email. > and i would never suggest that they should be using mutt. > after all i dont want the RSPCA chasing me.. > > ever done support for a newbie? i bet some of you know how it is: sure - as well as get tech-support from people who work from a checklist (did you set $PATH, did you set $DISPLAY). fortunately for my state of mind, the worst of those are over in Redhat's mailing lists, to which I won't subscribe because of the volume... -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
