Re: Seeking computer-programming job (Sunnyvale, CA)
Series Expansion wrote:
On May 17, 1:20 pm, Lew <no...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
[attributions fixed up]
I V wrote:
Series Expansion wrote:
Well, your suggestion that because a certain terminal-oriented editor's
internal scripting language is a dialect of Lisp, you can write a script
Nobody's talking about a terminal-oriented editor. They're talking about
Emacs, which has been a window-based application since the mid-1980s.
Paul is infamous for this intentional misapprehension of emacs, among other
things.
Paul Foley has written little, if anything, in this thread about
emacs. No other Pauls are in evidence. This remark seems to be
confused.
Read the thread more careful and you would see that he is referring
to Paul Derbyshire.
Last but not least, emacs is a terminal-mode editor. I should know --
I've used it, extensively during the 90s on one particular remote
system and occasionally before and since.
Nope.
It is an editor that supports both text and GUI mode.
There is this great thing called Wikipedia where you can
learn about think that you do not know about. Lisp is
likely to be too big a topic to learn about via Wikipedia,
but Emacs is OK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
The fact that you did not have access to X display or were
not aware that Emacs supported X does not prove anything
(except maybe lack of HW or lack of skills).
And emacs is a curses-based unix editor from the seventies. A tiny bit
of Web research will reveal that the first version was written between
January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1979 (inclusive) and that it is now
primarily used on unix systems; its source code #includes something
whose name contains "curses" just to round things out.
If *YOU* do the web research (link given above) then you would
see that Emacs contains a lot more than it did when it was
implemented on top of TECO.
Arne