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 think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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.