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What is the best macintosh ftp program?

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In 2004, Allan Odgaard, unsatisfied both with existing Macintosh text editors such as TextEdit, BBEdit, and XCode, which he felt were inflexible and limited, and with unix editors such as Vim and Emacs, which were un-Maclike, set out to create a text editor. TextMate 1.0 came out on 5 October 2004, after only 5 months of full-time development, quickly followed on 21 October 2004 by 1.0.1. The release focused on implementing a small feature set well, and didn't have a preference window or a toolbar, didn't integrate FTP as BBEdit does, and had no options for printing, to the chagrin of some reviewers, who didn't know what to make of the spartan editor window. At the beginning only a small number of programming languages were supported, as only a few 'language bundles' had been created. On the other hand, many raved about its unique features, and welcomed a new editor to a market they felt had stagnated with the dominance of BBEdit.

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