From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"?
Date: 27 Nov 2003 13:56:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5isl6otr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.688.1069912541.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> writes:
> Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
>
>
> > [snip] Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too
> > heavyweight and baroque for their taste....
>
> Baroque?
>
> Hmmmm. Or perhaps a Greek Tragedy?
>
> You *could* think of Emacs as a sort of labyrinth, with info and help
> features acting as Ariadne's thread leading to Richard Stallman at the
> center playing the Minotaur!
What a load of bull. Richard Stallman is, of course, playing Stephen
Dedalus.
> Except in the Emacs version we never quite reach the center because
> Theseus keeps getting sidetracked, customizing the labyrinth as he
> goes along, changing the lighting, adding new passages and creating
> shortcuts between tunnels....
Emacs is certainly modernistic.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-27 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 1:36 How to pronouncd "Emacs"? Jason
2003-11-26 1:49 ` Björn Lindström
2003-11-26 3:31 ` leo
2003-11-26 14:38 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-11-26 14:53 ` Björn Lindström
2003-12-06 6:30 ` Barry Margolin
2003-11-27 4:44 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.688.1069912541.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-27 12:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-11-26 17:03 ` Galen Boyer
2003-11-26 21:45 ` sebyte
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