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."
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)
*shrug* You asked, though I'm fluent in regex and use them in vi the least. Being fluent in regex is assumed with all professionals anywhere around me.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:06PM
There's lots of ways to specialize, I accidentally ended up versed in design controls and FDA/ISO compliance - not a topic I would have chosen, but valuable nonetheless. Regex is optional around here, and even frowned upon unless it comes with comments fully specifying what it is intended to do, and not do, because most of our programmers can't regex to save their lives.
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