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Small Open Source projects attn: Gordon Marx



On Thursday 17 March 2005 9:37 pm, David Kramer wrote:
> John Chambers wrote:
> > David Hummel writes:
> > | On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > | > Emacs is God's editor. Vi does not compare. You can't be a real
> > | > developer and use vi :-)
> >
> > So God revealed it directly to RMS? On a golden disk, perhaps?
>
> No, on two stone tablets.  He wanted to give it to him on one stone
> tablet, but it wouldn't fit.  He had to write on every single surface and
> use compression to fit it.  Ever try carving Lisp into stone?  Not easy.
Actually it was not too bad because the parens were left out.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com>
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Hewlett-Packard Co.
550 King Street LKG2a-X2
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