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what is it less powerful than? and is this NPOV? Iammaxus 04:53 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

An anonymous user, User:148.126.100.80, is repeatedly removing the paragraph below from the article with the edit summary: Again: This is not a quippy advocacy blog. I'm sure that is very funny to all 16 zealots who run this place, but unless there is PROOF it should be removed or reworded. -- "The edlin line editor was thrown together in two weeks in 1981, and was expected to have a six-month shelf life. Some industry pundits have suggested that this is the only Microsoft-written MS-DOS program that is bug-free; this is entirely false, however, as Seattle Computer Products, not Microsoft, wrote EDLIN."

I don't know which is "correct" but I think that the burden of proof is on User:148.126.100.80 to demonstrate what is NPOV about that paragraph.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 16:59, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, well, this sentence is a very good joke, but the way it's turned it took me quite a few seconds to catch it, so considering that the may goal here is not being funny... Oh, or maybe it is anyway. :-)

By the way, my Win2k version of EDLIN does not work properly. --[[User:Valmi|Valmi ✒]] 22:55, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The "shelf life" part of the comment is certainly false. It displays a misapprehension that EDLIN was only intended as a basic text editor for users. EDLIN (with FIND and SORT) was part of the data-processing facilities of DOS, and was documented as such. Replicating similar utilities on mainframes and minicomputers. These utilities remained available because they were used by system scripts, even when they had long been superseded for end-user use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.162.148 (talk) 01:17, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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