Newbie Needing Help

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Mon May  9 16:16:48 2011
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:15:49 -0700
> From: Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help
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> Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 09 May 2011:
> > >=20
> > > By the way, I remember a quote:
> > >=20
> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > > Hello.  My $NAME is ~inigo-montoya.  You killed my process.  Prepare
> > > to vi.  --The Unix's Bride
> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > > http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=3D&o_selected=3D1469:1=
> &action=3Dbrowse&action_mod=3Dshow&cat=3Dcro
> >=20
> > That joke is hilarious.  Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small
> > problem: "vi" is pronounced like "vee eye", not like the word "vie".
> >=20
>
> 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.

It was officially 'vee eye' -- so named because it was the _initials_
of the name '<v>isual <i>interace" to ed(1).  It was originally a 
separate program that did _just_ the curses-based display functions,
using 'ed' as a back-end process for the actual file manipulation.


That said  "Prepare to 'vee eye'"  is a close enough phonetic match to 
'prepare to die' for the joke to still work.