I vote for Thompson Freeman to do the presentation.... [=^D<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thompson Freeman</b> <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 06/03/2008 02:19:20 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:<br>> 2008/6/3 Jeff Lightner <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>>:<br>
> > New article out about something called cream to make vim<br>> easier for new<br>> > users (maybe even the emacs folks that can't figure it<br>> out):<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6045/">http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6045/</a><br>
> ><br>> > I like this from the article:<br>> ><br>> > "Vim has a tremendous amount of power, stability, and<br>> extensibility to offer<br>> > users (Emacs… ahhh, not so much)"<br>
> ><br>> > Let the flames begin…<br>><br>> Interesting. While I'm a hardcore vi/vim fan, I've never<br>> seen anyone<br>> claim emacs was *less* powerful and extendable<br>> than anything else. Emacs just lets you extend it<br>
> yourself until<br>> you've overextended yourself.<br><br>This would imply emacs is similar to an infinite coil of<br>rope - as in "give enough rope to hang himself".<br><br>What I have to wonder is whether or not anybody has tried<br>
taking a kernel, filesystem, and emacs and creating a lisp<br>machine or a general purpose computer from there.<br><br>If not, who is going to do so just to make a presentation<br>at an ALE meeting?? 8-)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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