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A comment on Ask HN: What are some poorly written but very successful open source software?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some poorly written but very successful ... by sayelt on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:02PM (#13626631)
Vim.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some poorly written but very successful ... by akkartik on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:51AM (#13627157)
As a long-time cheerleader for Vim, I totally agree. Vim is a paradoxical beast: incredibly convoluted code almost (but not quite) rescued by extremely great documentation.
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