From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: "Florian v. Savigny" <florian@fsavigny.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bringing psgml back to life
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:54:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTk=aE6ZLfZ+zA9p29kATVJcApZYhRpmecTOs5TP6s2xWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1T5cqA-00037u-C7@eggs.gnu.org>
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Florian v. Savigny <florian@fsavigny.de> wrote:
> but even though I have programmed in Elisp for about 10
> years, psgml has been programmed by somebody way above my
> competence. Thus, I would be very grateful if I could get some advice
I haven't seen the code for psgml-mode and I don't know who wrote it,
but I'm reminded of a motto one of my professors had posted on his
door:
Any damn programmer can write code a compiler can understand. It
takes a good programmer to write code that any damn programmer can
understand.
-PJ
Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-26 13:25 Bringing psgml back to life Florian v. Savigny
2012-08-27 19:54 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2012-08-28 9:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-08-28 17:46 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] <mailman.7613.1346003346.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-27 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-27 20:25 ` Florian v. Savigny
2012-08-27 14:16 ` Laura Conrad
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