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Re: Language "ranking" of Colin James III based on posts

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From: Robert Dewar
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:06
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Gene said

"I believe he meant "infamous" in respect to the size of it's source code -
which is in fact, quite large."

True, EMACS is pretty large, but I think the reaction to its size comes
from thinking of it as an editor. FOr an editor, it is rather large, but
of course EMACS is more than an editor (if you think of Windows as an
operating system, then EMACS is one too, and I suspect that EMACS is
rather smaller than Windows, of course it does not do quite all that
windows does :-) although in some respects it does more).

But I still do not see what this has to do with the question of language
(or for that matter with the subect of this post, what an entertaining
example of how subject lines live on!)
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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Language "ranking" of Colin James III based on posts
Date: 22 Dec 1995 10:06:21 -0500
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