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Comments on: Google warns third parties on GData mashups

Simple solution 

By E Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 01:28 GMT

If Google mandated the use of vi and only vi throughout the web, then all these high falutin' APIs would fall by the wayside in favour of tight clean code requiring a minimum of typing.

This is how God intended it to be. All those project based - and indeed the Lisp based - editors are truly the spawn of obfuscation.

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