How I wish I could write one of those

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Dominik Wagner, one of the minds behind SubEthaEdit, wrote a retrospective on his six years of studying computer science at a german university.

Being in my sixth year myself (but not at one of Germany’s finest universities), I can confirm most of what he says.

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2 Responses to How I wish I could write one of those

  1. myria says:
    March 17, 2006 at 09:17

    What does SubEthaEdit mean? What’s Etha?

    -myria

    fixed URL of site

  2. Richard Cyganiak says:
    March 17, 2006 at 14:42

    I think the term is inspired by Douglas Adams’ *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* series of novels, where SubEtha communication is some kind of instantaneous interstellar communication technology. It’s used to update the contents of the eponymous *Guide* in real time, for example.

    Now, SubEthaEdit is a text editor that lets several people edit a file at the same time, so the name fits well. Even though I believe it works only if everybody is located in the same stellar system.

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