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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:36:16 +0100
From: Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>
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Subject: [9fans] Advances in software technology
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I note from the article on the USACO programming contest in the
current Usenix magazine that one of chaps has written an implementation
of vi (the editor, not the mips simulator) in perl.

This is great news, as vi can now much more easily be ported
to other operating systems.