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 -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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
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