[anotherevan]

A little anecdote from a project I worked on in the mid-90s (hence terms like "4GL".) The project had a lot of back-end programming (C and PL/SQL) that we mostly wrote in Vi, but the front end UI was this weird 4GL thing which I can't remember the name of.

One particular quirk of this 4GL was that pressing the escape key while in the editor would close the editor, do not save, do not prompt, do not pass go and collect $200. Very bad feature, especially when switching between editing in this and in Vi a dozen times a day.

In the end, everybody on the team had a bottle cap on their desk that they could put over the escape key when firing up the 4GL editor to stop accidentally hitting the damn key out of sheer muscle memory all the time.