The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen. Bill Joy More Quotes by Bill Joy More Quotes From Bill Joy I just don't like to lose what's in the window. Bill Joy loses window I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy long-ago editors writing Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. Bill Joy program competition nice I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. Bill Joy macintosh prove thinking There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it. Bill Joy couple writing people Well, limbo is not a good place to be. Bill Joy good-place limbo wells So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features. Bill Joy then which out some I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. Bill Joy sitting stupid remember people The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. Bill Joy mouse got you problem I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away. Bill Joy i-think good think wonderful I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. Bill Joy copy performance memory think But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program. Bill Joy spell even program
