This : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_gift/

spawned this : http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/06/0927209.shtml

Good Lord, its 2007 and yet people can still get all worked up over vi and
emacs.  No wonder we have wars over religion.

For the record, I use vi.  Not just any vi either but THE vi in
/usr/xpg4/bin/vi and I set my env var EDITOR that way too.

Oh .. don't know if anyone knows this bit of trivia in the Solaris world but
Rich Teer wrote his massive 1152 page book, "Solaris Systems Programming" in
the time honoured tradition of using vi and troff.  It says so on page
xxxvi.[1]

  wow

Well I entered every character of this message using toggle switches at the
front panel with my left foot tapping out square wave clock signals to
manually refresh the DRAM. :-)

-- 
Dennis Clarke

[1] got it right here on my desk and I excluded the index and bibliography
    from that page count.  I still have the pre-print manuscripts in a box
    here too.

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