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Re: Auto Fill Comments
From: |
Arthur Miller |
Subject: |
Re: Auto Fill Comments |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 01:25:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 at 1:08 AM
>> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>>
>> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>> > Re-Writing is a basic tenet amongst writers, but not among programmers it
>> > seems.
>> :-) Plagiators who can't come up with new ideas ;-)
>
> I remember the time I copied A Farewell To Arms in its entirety on a
> typewriter
> in order to learn about his writing style and how it feels to write a great
> work.
>
>> If Hemingway rewrote as much as programmers do, the old man would still
>> be deciding which oars to choose for todays fishing.
>
> You forgot about Stephen King. The man's a legend.
I don't have time for guys like Stephen King; too much Lisp left to
read. Still didn't red all Plato's dialogues I had on my todo.
If you want different introduction into Lisp and can stad awful english,
you might look here: https://github.com/amno1/as-powerful-as-possible
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