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A high number of Unix programmers (Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Doug McIlroy, Tom Duff & Bjarne Stroustrup) used sam at Bell Labs, which is known as "ed on st
by SixSigma 11y ago
A high number of Unix programmers (Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Doug McIlroy, Tom Duff & Bjarne Stroustrup) used sam at Bell Labs, which is known as "ed on steroids, lots of steroids".
http://sam.cat-v.org/ http://sam.cat-v.org/
- mavelikara 11y agoFrom an interview with Peter Salus [1]: By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' - I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "yeah, I've seen editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them, I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing". [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20080103071208/http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~george/history/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080103071208/http://www.dcs.qmu...