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I heard an anecdote about when Unix was being written. They decided that they needed an editor, and figured it would take one person a week to do it. Clearly,

I heard an anecdote about when Unix was being written. They decided that they needed an editor, and figured it would take one person a week to do it. Clearly, there was a whole different mindset then than there is now.

wongarsu 5y ago
If they had dedicated another two weeks to the editor that might have spared us decades of people asking how to exit vi(m).
beardyw 5y ago
Wow, Brendan Eich is supposed to have had a whole 10 days to come up with JavaScript.