[tpm] [Fwd: Re: Vim turns 30 today!]

Shlomi Fish shlomif at shlomifish.org
Mon Nov 8 00:45:30 PST 2021


Hi Indy!

On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 10:47:02 -0400
"Indy Singh" <indy at indigostar.com> wrote:

> What did people use 31 years ago before Vim?
> 

Since I've answered similar questions often:

https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/text_editors.xhtml#past_text_editors

	— Shlomi

> Text editing is always a fascinating subject to me.
> 
> I know in the 70's I used paper tape and punch cards. Then an IBM mainframe 
> online editor called Electric.
> 
> In 1980 I wrote my own editor in Fortran to run on a Teradyne minicomputer. 
> There was some sort of online edit on PDP minicomputers.
> 
> The 80's are a bit hazy now. That's when IBM Pc's came out.  After some 
> head-scratching I recall I used the Lattice C compiler, which was 
> Microsoft's first C compiler.
> 
> In the 90's it was a Modula 2 IDE, along with Microsoft's Visual C/C++ IDE.
> 
> Indy Singh
> www.indigostar.com
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: arocker at Vex.Net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:44 AM
> To: Toronto PerlMongers
> Subject: [tpm] [Fwd: Re: Vim turns 30 today!]
> 
> 
> How many lines of great code have been created with Vim's help since then?
> 
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> 
> Date:    Wed, November 3, 2021 3:48 am
> To:      vim_use at googlegroups.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today/
> >
> > Happy 30th Birthday!!! Thanks Bram.  
> 
> 
> 
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