99: An Absence of Moral Fiber
I’m swamped doing math for the networking book kickstarter, trying to compensate for the recent political stupidity that’s kicking small business when it’s down, so here’s a tidbit from an older work.
Let me be very clear here: ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor.
Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix, declared it so. Who are you to argue with someone who can write a complete operating system without using a glass teletype?1
Many younger sysadmins naively hoist their pennants to defend overblown, overwrought, overdesigned text editors like ex, vi, or even the impossibly bloated…
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