Bill Joy

Businessman

United States

1954 - Present

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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
Bill Joy
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
Bill Joy
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bill Joy
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
Bill Joy
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Bill Joy
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Bill Joy
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
Bill Joy
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
Bill Joy
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
Bill Joy
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
Bill Joy