{"id":13632,"date":"2025-06-25T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:43:10","slug":"as-usual-decades-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/06\/25\/as-usual-decades-late\/","title":{"rendered":"As usual, decades late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/06\/24\/2039231\/microsoft-releases-classic-ms-dos-editor-for-linux\">Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux<\/a> . My mind immediatly recalls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Spencer\">Henry Spencer<\/a>, author of regex<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear MicroSoft, you&#8217;re fifty years late. Also if I want a very light, very simple editor I use mcedit &#8211; the editor coming with <a href=\"https:\/\/midnight-commander.org\/\">Midnight Commander<\/a> &#8211;  or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nano-editor.org\/\">nano<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux . My mind immediatly recalls Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Henry Spencer, author of regex Dear MicroSoft, you&#8217;re fifty years late. Also if I want a very light, very simple editor I use mcedit &#8211; the editor coming with Midnight Commander&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/06\/25\/as-usual-decades-late\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-3xS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8197,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/02\/25\/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-of-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-killing-javascript-in-the-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":13632,"position":0},"title":"A Post-Mortem in 5 Acts, of How Microsoft Privatized Open Source, killing JavaScript in the Process","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2021-02-25","format":"link","excerpt":"A Post-Mortem in 5 Acts, of How Microsoft Privatized Open Source, killing JavaScript in the Process After Microsoft\u2019s blitzkrieg take-over, the Open Source JavaScript community, as we know it, is coming to an end. 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