Tim Hammerquist wrote:

> The instructor of the java course I'm taking now has even tried
> to frighten us into using JBuilder, saying, "Get used to
> industry-standard tools before you're in over your head!"

Vi was an industry-standard tool long before there was a JBuilder, or a 
Java, or a Borland.  Vim is likely to be an industry-standard tool 
longer than this professor is.