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- From: jwe@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 22:07:50 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- References: <1993Jan11.032430.19184@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan11.032430.19184@husc3.harvard.edu>
- zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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- > I shan't presume to speak for you or your programs, but for anyone
- > *but* a skilled programmer, Emacs is *far* inferior to any generic
- > (WYSIWYG, graphical) word processor.
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- Thanks for speaking for everyone else *but* skilled programmers though!
-
- I know several people who are definitely not skilled programmers but
- who still find Emacs to be far *superior* to MS Word (for example).
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- --
- Virtually all of the programs obtained by our sampling | John W. Eaton
- procedure were written in FORTRAN. -- Donald E. Knuth | jwe@che.utexas.edu
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