15 May
2018
15 May
'18
4:47 p.m.
Yeah. We lost that and it was a good thing. Programming became a operation between you
and your computer in the privacy of your own office.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On May 15, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 08:17:38AM -0600,
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"Ron Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
In fairness to them, I don't know how you learn the good stuff outside
of a terminal room. I learned so much by watching the screen change
and going "WTF? How did you do that?"
There is only so much you can stuff into a manual.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
I never really learned VI. I can stumbled
through it in ex mode if I have
to. If there's no EMACS on the UNIX system I'm using, I use ed.
You get real good at regular expressions. Some of my employees were
pretty amazed at how fast I could make code changes with just ed.
I did learn vi, after having learned ed first. I drop down to the ex
command line for major regexp-based surgery too. I also get the amazement
from co-workers who watch me do stuff. :-) This is particularly true
of the, er, younger coworkers (kids today ... :-) who can't manage
outside an IDE.