On 04/12/2013 16:21, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 12/4/13 11:07 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 04/12/2013 15:50, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-12-04, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
On 30Nov2013 14:25, pec...@pascolo.net <pec...@pascolo.net> wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
[NNTP] clients provide full-fledged editors
    and conversely full-fledged editors provide
    NNTP clients

   GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
         - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch

Unix: A set of device drivers used to support the the Emacs operating
       system.

  - Don't remember who, where, or when


It's a funny thing the computing world, with some people deriving
operating systems from raincoats, and others editing code with a
domestic household cleaner, what next, I ask myself?


Computing with vacuum cleaners is on the decline at least:
http://www.vax.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners

--Ned.


Well it shouldn't be. It's a well known fact that VMS stands for Very Much Safer. I'd compare it to inferior products, but not even the threat of The Comfy Chair will make me type the names.

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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