I enjoyed the book. It got good reviews and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
I always whenever I see code on a show/movie I wonder if it's real, a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.
Also recently watched Nirvana 1997 really good.
https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...
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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.
5 CLS
10 PRINT "PLOT BILATERAL CO-ORDINATES"
15 PRINT : PRINT
20 GOSUB 5000
25 PRINT "INPUT CO-ORDINATE X : "
31 PRINT "4";
33 PRINT "2";
35 PRINT "Y" : PRINT
40 PRINT "INPUT CO-ORDINATE Y : "
41 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 41 : IF
42 PRINT "Z";
43 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 43 : IF
44 PRINT "+";
45 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 45 : IF
46 PRINT "X"
47 GOSUB 5000
50 CLS
60 PRINT "0010 N = RND(900)"
70 PRINT "0020 Z = 1 TO N"
80 PRINT "0030 X = 1 TO 31"
90 PRINT "0040 Y = 1 TO 15"
100 PRINT "0050 SET(31-X,16-Y,Z)TO(31+X,Y,"
110 PRINT "0060 SET(31+X,Y,Z)TO(31-X,16-Y,"
120 PRINT "0070 SET(X,16+Y,Z-Y)TO(X,Y,Z)"
130 PRINT "0080 SET(X,16-Y,Z+Y)TO(16+X,Y+)"
140 PRINT "0090 GOTO 500"
150 PRINT "0100 NEXT X:NEXT Y:NEXT Z
160 PRINT "0110 CLS"
170 PRINT "0120 DATA 1.13.2.67.2."
180 PRINT "0130 DATA 12.45.90.3.23.56.2.56"
190 PRINT "0140 DATA 3.6.1.43.92.56.2.9.08"
200 PRINT "0150 DIM P(9)"
210 PRINT "0160 B$ = CHR$(191)"
220 PRINT "0170 FOR X = Y - Z : PRINT X"
230 PRINT "0180 FOR Y = X - Z : PRINT Y"
240 PRINT "0190 END"
250 PRINT
260 PRINT
270 PRINT
280 PRINT
290 PRINT
300 PRINT
310 PRINT
320 PRINT
330 PRINT
340 PRINT
350 PRINTAlso, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com
I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.
And sometimes it's just a directory listing.
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
Pleased to meet you.
Most of my console dev time is spent in *BSD, where nvi is where I land. I find the the default creature-features of vim annoying, so I end up having to configure it to be a bit more quiet, and I don't know anything so compelling about it (a vi clone (to an extreme, acknowledged)) that nvi isn't a good enough place to be. I have vim installed, but it's not my go-to.
For me, it'd be primarily having more than one undo. Not being able to undo the second-to-last change is pretty bad. In fact, vim's undo being set up as a tree that can be walked with g- and g+ is excellent. It's impossible to lose a state of the buffer, even if you undo and make changes. It's a lot more practical to navigate than Emacs undo, too.
EDIT: I just realized that nvi can undo more than one change by having u toggle the direction and . continue in that direction. I don't think ex-vi could. busybox vi seems like it can undo multiple with u but it seems to have no redo.
Do you mean infinite undo? nvi has that. I'm not sure what you mean "set up as a tree" wrt undo, but i'll look into it. I think of nvi's undo as linear - I can 'u' to "undo" and implicitly set my "undo direction" "backward in time" (as one would expect). If I want to "undo, even more", '.' (dot, period) to "do that last command again" is what I'll do. If I want to "undo an undo", 'u'. That has the effect of moving the "undo direction" back towards the state of the buffer we had at the beginning of our discussion here.
...and, now I see your edit ;)
^[u..........:wq
:h undo-branches
There's also a plugin to show a visualization of the tree, but the tree is implemented within vim.
Because vim generally offers everything vi has.
vi does have one advantage though. It's a lot lighter. vim is like 5.4MiB in size with 82 shared library dependencies, while vi[1] is like 260KiB with 2 library dependencies (libc and ncurses).
In this gem there is a conversation about hacking into some system, and a character asks another a completely nonsensical semi jargon question, which goes like this: "Did you try Emacs via Sendmail?". I shit you not.
This expression firmly cemented itself into Polish tech speak as a way to refer to or call out someone having absolutely no idea what they are taking about.
(Hah, I just looked around a bit more, and Wikipedia cites an archived mailing list message that I don't remember seeing before: https://web.archive.org/web/20181027195101/http://blade.naga... I remember at some point Emacs Lisp specifically being cited as an inspiration, but I might be confabulating that, I didn't find a source for it.)
Also, here's a fun paragraph from the opening comments of quail.el (lightly reformatted):
> [There was an input method for Mule 2.3 called ‘Tamago’ from the Japanese ‘TAkusan MAtasete GOmen-nasai’, or ‘Sorry for having you wait so long’; this couldn't be included in Emacs 20. ‘Tamago’ is Japanese for ‘egg’ (implicitly a hen's egg). Handa-san made a smaller and simpler system; the smaller quail egg is also eaten in Japan. Maybe others will be egged on to write more sorts of input methods.]
And now it's more clear to me why that is.
https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...
Gotta admit that I use Emacs and favor spaces over tabs. And K&R braces. And you’re wrong if you make any other choice.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120502000130/https://jtnimoy.n...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman
At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?
This is from the person who wrote the original article on Emacs.
