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From: dvd@davidashen.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:36:10 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ffc831da45dcc04aa2839da7c75d259@davidashen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412F0090.1000906@9fs.org>

> 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.

A much more usable solution would be to just implement BSD C library,
termcap, system calls and a C compiler in perl, so that anyone who needs
vi could just run perl and compile and run BSD vi on top of it. nvi is a good
program, after all.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-27  9:36 Nigel Roles
2004-08-27 10:36 ` dvd [this message]
2004-09-01  8:58   ` Aharon Robbins
2004-08-27 10:58 ` geoff
2004-08-27 13:27   ` Nigel Roles
2004-08-27 14:36     ` Jason Gurtz
2004-08-27 22:02       ` Joel Salomon
     [not found]         ` <salomo3@cooper.edu>
2004-08-28 10:51           ` Andrew Lynch
2004-08-27 16:04 ` andrey mirtchovski

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