I would kill rms, thus making EMACS non-existent. vim wouldn't be under so much pressure to be better and it would deteriorate. Being such a failure, everybody would be using ed.
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Mr. 82008-02-05 9:48
vim being such a failure.
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Anonymous2008-02-05 10:16
>>8
Without rms Unix would be dead, and it would take ed with it.
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Anonymous2008-02-05 10:25
One word, the forced indentation of code
Thread over.
>>14
All of the BSDs combined have five users between them (and Mac OS most certainly doesn't count), nobody uses UnixWare or Solaris, and only Tanenbaum uses Minix. Without GNU/Linux, Unix would have been forgotten.
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Anonymous2008-02-05 17:09
I would kill Sepples before it was born. Probably that would erase Java from the timeline too.
I would prevent American business interests from strangling TRON. In a level playing field, TRON would go on to conquer Nihon (that's Japan in Nihongo (that's Japanese in Japanese)) and then the world.
>>15
OS X is real Unix, unlike GNAA/Lunix. Enjoy your open sores.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 0:56
I would write SICP before the Sussman does.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 1:04
>>28
Then there would be two SICPs. How cool is that‽
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Anonymous2008-02-06 3:26
>>29
I would kill the Sussman, becaus THERE CAN BE -ONLY- ONE
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Anonymous2008-02-06 3:53
>>27
The certification is pretty meaningless, and whether or not it's OMG REAL UNIX hardly matters when you go out of your way to hide it from your users.
And either way, Mac OS only became Unix years after Linux appeared, and only because of Red Hat's incredible stock market success.
>>34,36
HURRRRRR HURRRRR IMMA SO CLEVER HURRRRRRR DURRRRRR
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Anonymous2008-02-06 17:49
>>35
Lol. That's what he said his biggest regret about UNIX was.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 18:45
I'm sorry, whose ``Ken'', and what significance is the word create with respect to ``Ken''?
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Anonymous2008-02-06 18:50
I'm sorry, whose ``Anonymous'', and what significance is the post ``I'm sorry, whose ``Ken'', and what significance is the word create with respect to ``Ken''?'' with respect to ``Anonymous''?
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Anonymous2008-02-06 18:58
>>40
This may surprise you, but I invented the meme of recursive memes.