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Article #8236Re: Okay--I give; why is Emacs so great?
From: Colin Plumb
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 06:33
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 06:33
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>[The Right Way to write an editor is to start with a language and add >text editing primitives] Actually, I think it's very close to being true that all Real Programs are turing-equivalent. To put it another way, I'm considering using the definition if it doesn't have a powerful macro language, it's not a Real Program. Of course, this disqualifies the Unix kernel, X windows, and a lot of other things, so I need to do a teensy bit of refinement... -- -Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!microsoft!w-colinp From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Okay--I give; why is Emacs so great? Message-ID: <197@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 89 06:33:18 GMT References: <490@blake.acs.washington.edu> <NELSON.89Jan5214342@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 12