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Subject: Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:36:10 +0500
From: dvd@davidashen.net
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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.

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.