From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
To: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-directory breakage
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 15:09:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481F8595.1040705@emf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abj4oh3v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
>>>> There is not much I could say about gastroenteritis that would be
>>>> ontopic in emacs-devel.
I hesitated thrice before replying to this threatening-to-be-distracting
"joke"
thread and still found myself feeling it couldn't hurt:
In a pandemic, we could well find many programmers decommissioned
and, concurrently, a need to improvise novel, powerful, user-facing
computer applications to help society hold things together.
In such circumstance, Emacs has much to offer. It is modest in
its requirements of the software stack below it. It has an implementation
that, at core, one or a very few programmers can maintain and extend.
It affords its users a programming environment with a rich improvisational
capacity, even if the resulting applications are "crude" by today's most
popular
UI / look-and-feel expectations.
It is very valuable and rare that way so one thing to keep in mind as
I.D.E. support
is added is to K.I.S.S.
-t
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 15:21 vc-directory breakage Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-05 15:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 15:39 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 15:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 16:03 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:23 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-05 17:00 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 20:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 22:09 ` Thomas Lord [this message]
2008-05-05 22:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-06 0:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 0:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 0:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 8:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-06 16:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-07 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 1:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 9:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 12:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 16:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 6:36 ` David Kastrup
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