26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
12:46 p.m.
On 26 Feb 2017 07:39 -0500, from jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa):
I was never happy with the size of EMACS, and it had
nothing to do with the
amount of memory resources used. That big a binary implies a very large amount
of source, and the more lines of code, the more places for bugs...
But remember; without Emacs, we might never have had _The Cuckoo's
Egg_. Imagine the terror of that loss.
Or not. (Though Stoll's book was one of the things that more or less
introduced me to the idea of operating systems other than DOS/Windows.
I don't remember how many times I borrowed that book from the local
library, but it was probably in the double digits at least. Later I
got my own copy, which I still have.)
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“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)