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Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
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Burton Samograd |
Subject: |
Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:00:07 GMT |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid> writes:
>> All due respect, and everything, but the above is incoherent nonsense.
>> "Worse is better"? What's that supposed to mean?
>
> It's an expression coined by Richard P. Gabriel (a Lisp hacker) while
> trying to explain why C and Unix became so popular even though they
> (in his view) were technically inferior to The Right Thing, i.e. Lisp.
>
> See
>
> <http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html>
>
> for more details.
Thanks for the clarification; I thought that paper was more widely
known. Although the wording of the sentance is a bit inflammitory
without reference, I happen to find that it's closer to the way the
world works than being technically perfect (better translated as
academic). In the end I'm still using a "worse" UNIX based OS, while
the LISP machines have faded into history (although many of the ideas
still live on inside of emacs).
--
burton samograd
http://kruhftwerk.dyndns.org
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- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Burton Samograd, 2003/11/10
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Alan Mackenzie, 2003/11/11
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Jesper Harder, 2003/11/11
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