You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
BILL JOYGiven the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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