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From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Eddward DeVilla <eddward@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:26:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlsaucpt.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7cdbe30804030726j6f511dfje36a16f1338c8b70@mail.gmail.com> (Manish's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:56:37 +0530")

Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:

>   On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Rick Moynihan wrote:
>   >  Emacs might be Org's greatest ally, but it's also simultaneously
>   > Org's biggest problem.  My point here, isn't to bash Emacs, it is
>   > what it is, and it's damn good...  But with apologies to RMS, it
>   > is the product of a radical, hair-brained, compiler-writing,
>   > AI-lab, academic!!  You really couldn't find anyone further away
>   > from the mainstream computer user!
>   >
>
> I am so glad that that "radical, hair-brained, compiler-writing,
> AI-lab, academic" did what he did.

I absolutely agree.

First of all, do you want to be a mainstream computer user?  I don't.

Secondly, rms was pretty close to mainstream computer users in 1983.
Consider historical context.

And while you're still considering historical context, consider that
most of the "developments" in computer use since then, outside of
hardware improvements, have been in the *wrong* direction, toward less
concise, less expressive and overall less powerful computer use
behavior.

Joel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 10:28 Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real Carsten Dominik
2008-04-01 11:39 ` Rainer Stengele
2008-04-01 14:30 ` Russell Adams
2008-04-01 15:52 ` Eddward DeVilla
2008-04-01 19:11   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03  9:55   ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-03 14:26     ` Manish
2008-04-03 15:14       ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-03 16:59         ` Bastien
2008-04-03 17:27           ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-04  9:26             ` Bastien
2008-04-04  9:12         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-04 12:20           ` Egli Christian (KIRO 433)
2008-04-04 12:38             ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-07 15:14           ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03 16:26       ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2008-04-03 17:39         ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-04  7:49       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03 23:28     ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-04-01 23:05 ` Sven Bretfeld
2008-04-02  2:54   ` Clint Laskowski
2008-04-03 16:22 ` Tim O'Callaghan

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