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▲F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
jolmg 3 hours ago [-]
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.

What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.

nagaiaida 3 hours ago [-]
stackghost 58 minutes ago [-]
> By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' - I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "yeah, I've seen editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them, I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing".

Literally an insane opinion.

tosti 48 minutes ago [-]
To be fair, I sometimes edit files with ed. Especially the ones I've seen hundreds of times (eg /etc/ssh/sshd_config).

Nowadays we're dealing with orders of magnitude more code. Back in the day it would've been fine for the programs you wrote yourself.

BikiniPrince 3 hours ago [-]
It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.
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