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Re: A modern-mode?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: A modern-mode? |
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Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:17 -0400 |
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> | A cocky novice once said to Stallman: "I can guess why the editor is
> | called Emacs, but why is the justifier called Bolio?"
> |
> | Stallman replied forcefully: "Names are but names, 'Emack & Bolio's'
> | is the name of a popular ice cream shop in Boston-town. Neither of
> | these men had anything to do with the software."
> |
> | His question answered, yet unanswered, the novice turned to go, but
> | Stallman called to him: "Neither Emack nor Bolio had anything to do
> | with the ice cream shop, either."
That joke is misleading, since I did not know any of that
When Bolio was written -- around 1980 I think -- I did not know
about the store. I was puzzled by thek text formatter's name, and
asked what it meant. Then I was told about the store.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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