I spent way too much time reading the recent massive ">500-messages" thread, and then spent even more time (perhaps better spent) reading wider on some aspects of the debate.
This recently-found link sets out (from one possibly-biased POV, I guess) how the rift between GNU Emacs and XEmacs occurred: http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html After reading the page, and in light of much of the "your-syntax-is-obscure/mine-is-clear/easy-to-read/hard-to-read" discussion on said ">500-messages" thread, I found the last line on the above lemacs.html page very funny, and wanted to share it. Not saying that such a thing couldn't ever be said about some given implementation of something complex in python (or any language, for that matter), but I still had a good chuckle. Caleb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
