From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 12:48:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140803164852.2484618C0C2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> 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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2014-08-03 16:48 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2014-08-03 17:09 ` John Cowan
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2014-08-06 22:24 Norman Wilson
2014-08-06 22:19 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 20:21 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 22:24 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-05 2:41 ` Andy Kosela
2014-08-05 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-04 2:54 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 3:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-04 7:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-04 9:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 11:49 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 12:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 16:26 ` John Cowan
2014-08-04 13:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-04 14:53 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-03 0:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 8:00 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 21:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 23:44 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 16:47 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 18:51 ` Ian King
2014-08-02 14:28 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-02 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 15:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-02 16:07 ` John Cowan
2014-08-02 17:28 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2014-08-02 19:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02 16:04 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2014-08-02 16:03 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 19:36 ` Dave Horsfall
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