Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 18/10/2011 19:57, in article m21uuaruu7.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
<simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
>> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>>> You know, Emacs users and us, the others, represent different
>>>> species. I'm certain that a scientific study would show that these
>>>> don't even interbreed. Each Emacs user must have been abducted by
>>>> aliens in flying saucers... (:-))
>>> 
>>> I think the alien part may be the answer. We certainly don't seem to
>>> breed true (I only have two data points for this statement :-))
>> 
>> I've been an avid emacs user (indeed I am typing this post in emacs
>> right now) since 2000, and my 5-year-old son learned how to type his
>> name in the *scratch* buffer of emacs.  How is that for a data point? :)
> 
> Hmm, both my daughters were born before the GNU Emacs project started
> (1984 according to Wikipedia), so perhaps it's no wonder!

I'll enrage both of the warring camps, but I see little difference between
emacs and vi: both are feeble attempts to simulate a proper GUI editor.

I first encountered emacs in the late 1970s, on our Unix V7 PDP-11/45.
That machine had 248K of RAM.  Emacs was several times bigger than the
entire store, which supported 16 users well (if emacs was not running) or
one user badly (when emacs was running).  I saw no good reason for that
extravagance and have not changed my mind since.

{Yes, it's a drop in the ocean of this laptop's 4Gb RAM; but it's a matter
of principle. 8-}

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