On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:06:41PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > Waitaminnit! > > > > We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > > > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (it did not > evolve by itself), and so clearly vi is [the tool of] the intelligent > designer :-) > I'm sure its out there somewhere, but wouldn't it be cool to see a family tree of computers and their data entry/code editing methods? For example, and this is of course entirely fabricated: Emacs was written using Vi which was written using edlin which was written on such and such a machine using some other editor which was originally recompiled for that machine by b;ah-de-blah using the first cross-compiler on a watchmajig20000 which was originally coded up using pencil and paper and entered into memory as a series of pokes and executed by the whose-it kernel originally written by some guy in 19xx using punchcards on a dagnabit using a whopping 8k core memory. or something like that. A
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