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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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