[TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Aug 4 02:48:52 AEST 2014


    > From: John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>

    > because of all the Elisp code it ships with

So why is /usr/bin/emacs 4.5 megabytes?

    > That's basically just the kind of peeving that objects to the use of
    > computers as calculators and spelling checkers.

I just gave several good reasons why large programs (well, technically,
systems) are bad. Are you saying those reasons are fallacious?

	Noel



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