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From 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 Q
by mavelikara 11y ago
From 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...