Re: Happy birthday!

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On Monday, November 2, 2020 6:19 PM, Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> wrote:

> 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed.
> And Vim is more popular than ever before! So, what's going on these days?

nice sir!

i conjecture that vim will keep getting more and
more popular, even in the distant future, such as
5000+ years later.

my reasoning is that vim's user-interface is so
innovative for mammals with 10 fingers, it might
even be near shannon's channel limit for
finger-to-keyboard data transfer.

so in 5000 years, assuming we evolve towards
higher intelligence, we are bound to see increased
vim population, until it becomes the standard user
interface across other apps.

of course, unless we evolve to grow other output
organs that have higher bandwidth than the 10
fingers. but even then, vim will be a miraculous
gift to other mammals before us that still have
those 10 fingers.

(i'm not a prophet - in case you read this 5k years later).

rgrds,
cm

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