[nycbug-talk] vi interview with Joy

[Okan Demirmen]

On Sun 2007.01.07 at 09:26 -0500, michael wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:14:46 -0500
> "George R." <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> 
> > Found this off the DFly Digest. . . is on the British Register. . .
> > from 1999:
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/d5vt9
> > 
> > g

....why am i replying to this??? i don't know.

> Now we know exactly who to blame! 
> 
> 	"People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't
> 		exist anymore -" 
> 
> So, lets move on to something better.

that quote is taken out of context ...

> I know vi is one of the defacto editors in unix. But is continuity
> really the only reason to hang onto one of the zaniest text editors
> ever conceived?  Why else would the unix world not come up with a
> simple, elegant, and effective text editor... that is unixy?

what? are you trying to start a flame war? get over it.