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Re:Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar by coldtea on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:20AM (#8634939)
You don't have to be familiar with Vim's code to know that having support for obsolete OSes makes the code substantially more complicated.
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Re:Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar by dllthomas on Thursday November 20, 2014 @01:05PM (#8637094)
It depends on how much the compatibility issues have been factored out into external libraries. In the case of vim, I think the answer is "substantially not".
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