"Programmers have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Java because it was designed from the ground up for the Internet. JavaScript is a natural fit, since it's also designed for the Internet and Unicode-based worldwide use. JavaScript will be the most effective method to connect HTML-based content to Java applets."

#BillJoy, co-founder and vice president of research, Sun Microsystems, 1995

https://web.archive.org/web/20020606002913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

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#InternetHistory #Java #JavaScript

No. That is not how Bill Joy looked in 1982 nor is that a photo of Bill Joy in 1982.

Google: a company of sloppy fools who lack pride of craft or any reasonable QC anymore despite how "smart" their AI staff is, supposedly.

#Google
#AI
#BillJoy

If you are interested in the broad range of vi clones that have existed (and still exist) over the decades, one of the better resources on the subject was published by Sven Guckes:

https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html

I hope that someone takes up the mantle here, because M. Guckes collected more information than the O'Reilly book had, and there's more to be had from the decade since.

#nvi #elvis #stevie #calvin #vi #vim #neovim #winvi #Watcom #ex #nex #view #nview #BillJoy #BramMoolenaar #KeithBostic #SvenGuckes

It is widely known that the #XeroxAlto pioneered many aspects of modern computing, or at least integrated them into the #userInterface we still use today.

But it also featured the first #modalEditor with #Bravo (although they eventually replaced it with the modeless #BravoX).

https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/115422978986104778

#modalEditing #vi #vim #BillJoy #unix #posix #xerox #alto #gui #editor

Just watched this; https://youtu.be/gOvt5dCJ4PY

Interesting to see how stuff was in the before times. When I was tapping away on a BBC micro at school, and a ZX spectrum at home. My future was being laid out by the hands of people such as Bill Joy, John Mashey, Doug Hartman and Mike Denney.

#unix #zenix #computerchronicles #stewartcheifet #garykildall #billjoy #johnmashey #doughartman #mikedenney #belllabs #sunmicrosystems #hewlettpackard #basis

#PensamientoAtropellado

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#BillJoy

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html