Bill Joy
Bill Joy
William Nelson "Bill" Joyis an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.