Given the evolution of the past 30 years, I'd say yes, vi will still be a thing in a 100 years.
On 30 août 2017 18:39 -0400, John Pratt via swift-evolution <[email protected]>, wrote: > Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers > should use vi? > > At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles > something advanced? > > Do you ever want anything that > slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be > using vi for the rest of civilization? > > > > On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > While I am in theory a fan of literate programming and enjoy integrated > > programming environments when they are integrated into a complete literate > > system (Smalltalk browsers, LISP environments, HyperCard, etc...)...In > > practice if its just a language and not a complete holistic system, and I > > can't command the entire thing with God's own editor (I speak of vi - > > because its "there" and it is the only editor guaranteed to be "there" on > > any system I am ever likely to try to access), I'm not gonna use it. > > > > Just my $0.02 > > > > > On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, > > > arguing that > > > symbols and graphics would push the programming language forward. > > > > > > Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out > > > into code, > > > instead of typing, “matrix()”? It seems to me Swift has the chance to do > > > that. > > > > > > Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when > > > there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat? > > > > > > Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having > > > “pow(x,2)? > > > I think this would make programming much easier to deal with. > > > > > > I expound on this issue in my article: > > > > > > http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf > > > > > > Thank you for reading. > > > > > > > > > -John > > > _______________________________________________ > > > swift-evolution mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > >
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