Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
jolmg 4 hours ago [-]
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.
> 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 2 hours 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.
Rendered at 07:03:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.
Literally an insane opinion.
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.