[earnest_baanter]

I agree. after a certain point, let's say, post-mastery of a craft, nice tools can be a great joy to work with. But, same for less ideal stuff, some days. working with unfit toolsay even yield surprisingly desirable results for the post-master craftsman.

[inigyou]

at one time I wrote Huffman compression in LambdaMOO, just because I could. This is a line editor akin to 'ed' accessed over telnet.