Small Open Source projects attn: Gordon Marx

John Chambers jc at trillian.mit.edu
Fri Mar 18 13:29:36 EST 2005


Jerry Feldman wrote:
| 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.

Hmmm ...  maybe we should take a closer look.  Did the function names
come before or after the args? If the latter, then it wasn't Lisp, it
was Forth.  And that oughta be good for another joke or two ...




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