Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Fri Nov 15 09:56:04 EST 2002


In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:47:41 EST
"Tom Buskey" said:

>>>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:57:29PM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>>(granted, I don't do this often, and more times than not, I ssh to 
>>the remote machine, co the file from RCS, vi it, etc.)
>
>emacs works well with RCS/CVS too.  I don't remember if it works that 
>across a SSH link.

Yeah, it seems to work okay over ssh using tramp.

>>>> You mean the rectangle thingy?  I've not seen it anywhere else but in 
>>>> emacsen.
>
>I first used it in PC-Write IIRC.  Did the same as the emacs thing that 
>you just explained.  I'm thinking I might have done it in qedit 
>(another DOS editor).

Hmmm, interesting.  I didn't know PC-Write had that type of 
capability.  Cool, though it doesn't do me much good now :)

>I remember some users (around '90) saying "Why do I need X?  I have 
>emacs and can run my editor, gdb, gcc, etc".  These users were beyone 
>the Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping of course :-)

I've known some who have had .emacs files that large :
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Paul
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