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I think this is the worst straw man headline I've ever heard.

I've never actually used ed once in the last 30 years of using Unixes both on a programming and admin perspective.

Edit: ok he got me :)

Many long years ago I took a course that required using a terminal to edit and run code (Language was Dartmouth Basic.) One lucky student got to use a full screen terminal while the rest of us used some kind of line oriented terminal. My recollection is the DEC LA120 (Though this was on a Prime 300 mini.) The only way to edit code was using a line oriented editor. (Though not technically ed on UNIX.)

We have come so far since.

I've been using Ed to write assembly on my Kaypro since it's so much faster than WordStar. It's been interesting seeing how people used to do it.

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