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Bill Joy

"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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"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 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 had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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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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