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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:46:16PM -0700, > Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> wrote > a message of 85 lines which said: > >> - edit source code (argh - back to the stone age) > > I always assumed that most people involved in IETF edit source code > daily (I did not say "full-time", I said "at least daily, or, let's be > gentle, weekly"). > > Was I wrong? I stopped editing document source code in 1986. The equivalent for programming is editing assembler. Same thing. Not since the mid 1980s. > And editing (in their raw, text-only, form) document formats like > LaTeX or DocBook or <phb>HTML</phb> or RFC 2629 is much easier than > editing source code. They're equally antiquated to me; they put me in direct contact with a level of internal structure that I don't feel gives me more control, just more nuisance. Joe
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