So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features. – Bill Joy
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn’t have a mouse and therefore you’ve got all these commands. – Bill Joy
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away. – Bill Joy
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain. – Bill Joy
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. – Bill Joy
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. – Bill Joy
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. – Bill Joy
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. – Bill Joy
