From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 12:16:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175E537B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5CJFrJ51594; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:15:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B266A69.154878CB@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:15:53 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: Jason Halbert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi References: <200106121556.f5CFupb48865@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > ahem. It is a natural and glorious attraction. When God wrote the > universe in Fortran, he used vi. Written in C which was an adaptation of the BCPL that was inspired by the appearance of Algol that was introduced to delay the onset if not onslaught of the COBOL manifested by the business community to pervert the algorithmic simplicity - when translated into formulas, naturally - of Fortran IV. Hence it came known that God moves if not writes in mysterious ways ;). Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message