Newbie Needing Help

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Mon May 9 21:15:54 UTC 2011


Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 09 May 2011:
> > 
> > By the way, I remember a quote:
> > 
> > ============
> > Hello.  My $NAME is ~inigo-montoya.  You killed my process.  Prepare
> > to vi.  --The Unix's Bride
> > ============
> > http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=&o_selected=1469:1&action=browse&action_mod=show&cat=cro
> 
> That joke is hilarious.  Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small
> problem: "vi" is pronounced like "vee eye", not like the word "vie".
> 

I've always pronounced it like "vie" -- but I was introduced to it long
before the web, back in the dark ages when each shop figured out their
own pronunciations and wrote their own compilers.

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