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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by digi_owl on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:45AM (#13071614)
More correctly nano is a reimplementation of pico.

This, iirc, done because pico was part of the pine email client. And pine was covered by a iffy license.

Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by codezero on Sunday December 04, 2016 @02:51PM (#13101451)
Ah, neat, I didn't realize it wasn't just renamed :)