Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-20 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > On the other hand, being actively beginner-hostile leads to nobody > adopting the tool. Then again, if you don't mind being the last > generation that'll ever use it, then I guess you're

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-22 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > On Jun 21, 12:03 pm, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Emacs is amazingly beginner-friendly for the power and flexibility it > > >> p

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-22 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > On Jun 22, 6:32 pm, Cor Gest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > HOW IN THE BLOODY HELL IS IT SUPPOSED TO OCCUR TO SOMEONE TO ENTER > > > THEM, GIVEN THAT THEY HAVE TO D

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-23 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > Boys, do you really not understand that this is a religious issue? You > can't use arguments and logic to convince someone to convert their > religion, and you can't use arguments a

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-24 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA JackT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > We don't care about the 1970 version of Emacs, > because of course back then there WAS NO GUI. But if you are blind as bat, any 2007's GUI is useless. Cor -- (defvar MyComputer

Re: is laziness a programer's virtue?

2007-04-15 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > Of course, for functional languages, 'lazy' means something rather > different... > lazy means: just get a post-grad to do the grunt-work for free. Cor -- The biggest problem LISP has is that

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped) > My website is now actually ranked higher than PaulGraham.com ! well well, so your site is more popular. You can make it even more popular, you know. Just rename some lame article about

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA Cthun , wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > And you omitted the #1 most serious objection to Xah's proposal, > rantingrick, which is that to implement it would require unrealistic > things such as replacing every 101-key keyboard with 10001-key > key