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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Edward Reingold <reingold@iit.edu>,
	slade@jnanam.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new calendrical calculations - elisp - common lisp
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:34:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4ckp574.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QWDIE-0001uZ-Rm@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:59:26 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I wonder what the point is in publishing code that people can't use.

Usually, it's to hit people up for money if they want to use the code
they'd read in the textbook (e.g. Numerical Recipes).



      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13 16:40 new calendrical calculations - elisp - common lisp Benjamin Slade
     [not found] ` <4DF64086.20802@cs.ucla.edu>
2011-06-13 17:00   ` Benjamin Slade
2011-06-13 19:28     ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-13 17:06 ` Edward Reingold
2011-06-13 19:59   ` Richard Stallman
2011-06-17 20:34     ` Chong Yidong [this message]

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