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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:15:53 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        dochawk@psu.edu
Cc:        Jason Halbert <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vi
Message-ID:  <3B266A69.154878CB@nisser.com>
References:  <200106121556.f5CFupb48865@fac13.ds.psu.edu>

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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

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