Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the eye-to-the-future dept.
newdaemon writes "Fortune
has a candid
interview
with Bill Joy about what he plans to do after leaving Sun and his opinions on many other topics, including his strong dislike of the C programming language and how the internet could evolve to take care of the problem of spam and viruses."
One of the other tasks the article metions Joy working on is a long awaited rewrite of vi to include a slick Java Swing GUI interface and the migration away from moded operation to Ctrl key sequences.
According to Joy, "The Control key wasn't available when I wrote vi in the 70's. Back then it was the cent symbol key (you know, that little "c" with the line through it?). So we had to go with this kludgy insert mode thing that just, well, rather sucks."
Bill Joy Outsourced To India
by
Baldrson
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· Score: 4, Funny
I think they are just side-stepping the real news which is that Sun outsourced Bill Joy. The new Bill Joy is working for 1/10 the rate and lives in Punjab.
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Bill Joy could join Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune or Pluto.
...)
(Oddly enough, there isn't a company that bears the name of the missing planet you're thinking of
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
One of the other tasks the article metions Joy working on is a long awaited rewrite of vi to include a slick Java Swing GUI interface and the migration away from moded operation to Ctrl key sequences.
According to Joy, "The Control key wasn't available when I wrote vi in the 70's. Back then it was the cent symbol key (you know, that little "c" with the line through it?). So we had to go with this kludgy insert mode thing that just, well, rather sucks."
I think they are just side-stepping the real news which is that Sun outsourced Bill Joy. The new Bill Joy is working for 1/10 the rate and lives in Punjab.
Seastead this.
Bonus points for using the word "fuck" twice and "shit" once, but being thoughtful enough to ambiguously asterisk out the 'e' in "circle-jerk".