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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by justin66 on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:36PM (#9893166)
Ken Thompson:

"And I've always been totally willing to hack things apart if I find a different way that fits better or a different partitioning. I've never been a lover of existing code. Code by itself almost rots and it's gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots."

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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by stinos on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:06PM (#9893735)
McCoy:

"I know engineers, they love to change things"

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Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input by brudgers on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:52PM (#9893657)
Thompson wrote Vi's predecessor ed. It is purported that he was a user of Rob Pike's sam editor from Plan9.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch13s02.html

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