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On 04/12/2013 15:50, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-12-04, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
>> On 30Nov2013 14:25, pecore@pascolo.net <pecore@pascolo.net> wrote:
>>> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>>> [NNTP] clients provide full-fledged editors
>>>     and conversely full-fledged editors provide
>>>     NNTP clients
>>
>>    GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
>>          - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch
>
> Unix: A set of device drivers used to support the the Emacs operating
>        system.
>
>   - Don't remember who, where, or when
>

It's a funny thing the computing world, with some people deriving 
operating systems from raincoats, and others editing code with a 
domestic household cleaner, what next, I ask myself?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence