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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the :wq dept.

Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.

"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:16AM (#724993)

    Yes, exactly this. It's why I've stuck with Vim all these years, and it's why I'll never give up the command line. GUIs are a pain in the ass, and that's not even when trying to walk somebody through a GUI over the phone! Seriously, I have talked total novices through command line over the phone in a tenth the amount of time it takes for me to describe a GUI, especially a bad GUI.

    Words are the natural way for humans to communicate complex ideas. Why should we be reduced to pictograms, gestures, and grunting with our machines?

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