Once you are comfortable with the vi editor, you will fi nd it to be quick, powerful, and easy to use. However, vi is a very complex program that takes a lot of effort to master. The backward...

Once you are comfortable with the vi editor, you will fi nd it to be quick, powerful, and easy to use. However, vi is a very complex program that takes a lot of effort to master. The backward compatible replacement, Vim, is even more powerful, more complex, and even harder to learn. Considering that vi is well over 30 years old and is so diffi cult to learn, why do you think it is still so popular in the Unix community?

Do you see a future in which complex tasks will be carried out exclusively by easy-touse tools, or will there always be a need for programs like vi?