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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by robotresearcher on Friday October 25, 2013 @11:26AM (#6612161)
Code is harder because editing text is harder. Text input and manipulation is just not very good on tablets. Even if you plug a keyboard into iOS editing is still worse than WordPerfect circa 1988.

You might type stuff in OK, but manipulating text is awful.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by thom on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:50PM (#6613687)
Yeah, I have no idea how Shakespeare got anything done.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by robotresearcher on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:28PM (#6628319)
Sure. 884,421 words[1]. And with that workload, I bet he used the most efficient technology available at the time to do it.

[1] http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/stats/

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