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Bill Joy

"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."

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"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."

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"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
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"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."
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"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
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"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."
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"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
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