It was most wonderful when I first encountered in 1978. On a Fox terminal and compared to ed :)
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Serial Editors With respect to VI someone said... > >> > In a recent interview Bill Joy(author of vi) said "Can't believe anybody > still uses that thing" If you wondered about why? Most of it is > ergonomics. Dr. Joy is a large person. The goal(way back then) was to be > able to do all the > extraneous functions without lifting the palms from the keypad. Two things. One, Bill Joy isn't what I would call a large person. He is a pretty normal sized guy, or at least he was the last time I saw him in person a few years ago. And second, back in the day when VI was hatched there were no key pads. Keyboards yes. Pads no. Whether that was his intent or not I can't say. He is supposed to have banged the original out in an afternoon in frustration with the even worse crap that was available in BSD zero dot something. Unfortunately it escaped and survived in the wild like a feral cat. VI certainly is a crock of sh1t. But for better or worse it goes out with every *IX distribution so it is about the only thing the *IX admins can really count on. Pity them. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
