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		isthisnagee on May 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim Is code not ... text?

twic on May 23, 2017 [–]

Code is usually represented as text, but it's not 'is' text. Or, since text is bytes, should we all be using hex editors for everything?

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