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Re:Dead ends of information technology by fnord77 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:47PM (#29346818)
> The bash is the default shell,

not on macos it is not.

> Emacs

I can assure you, the people who used emacs 20 years ago are still using emacs.

> Desktop office: MS-Office, Libreoffice. These programs were very important in the past. Today most people learned, that you can write the text directly into the mail body.

lolwut

> Nobody wants to call malloc() and free() any more.

um, embedded?

> Parsing text with regular expressions is like eating rubbish.

ok, I stopped here. This guy is a clown.

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Re:Dead ends of information technology by OrderlyTiamat on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:07AM (#29347872)
> I can assure you, the people who used emacs 20 years ago are still using emacs

And there's new users too! I for one am only about 20 years old :)

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