From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 12:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun) Message-ID: <20140803164852.2484618C0C2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: John Cowan > 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