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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 09:21:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >> * vi (eek - but better than ed) BSD
- >
- >rob pike's jim & sam
- >
-
- Amusing but irrelevant comment: Pike wrote these editors after the following
- statement: "Everybody writes an editor. It's easy to do and makes them feel
- important. Tell them to work on something useful."
-
- Those of us that this comment was about (a couple of people at Caltech who
- got involved in a "I could write a better editor than you" "Oh no you can't,
- I can" match, and then spent the night at terminals across the room writing
- editors and shouting out to each other what features they had just added)
- were quite amused when, a couple of months later, Pike started working on
- jim!
-
- --Tim Smith
-