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Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor

Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor.
About 15 or so years ago, I was changing jobs. I was leaving the walled garden of an IDE* for a proprietary language that deployed to an AS/400* .We wrote in IBM RPG* and Cool Plex, which looked a lot of meta-code and what I now know to be RDF Triples At my new job, I was writing web-facing applications using open source technology and deploying to Linux. I needed to find an editor to help me with the task.

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