The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Twisted]

On Jun 26, 10:52 am, Bjorn Borud <borud-n... at borud.no> wrote:
> [Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com>]
> |
> | Agreed.  Stallman got sidetracked by Scheme, which IMHO was a
> | dead-end.
>
> too many people buying SICP and believing what they heard about it
> being an important book.  I too spent some time exploring Scheme, or
> should I say, wasted some time, years ago, and nothing came of it
> other than a profound irritation.  these people seemed to be
> completely disconnected from reality.
>
> Scheme, and thus Guile, might have been a viable path if these people
> had only been practical instead of stubbornly insisting on being odd.

Some people might say the same thing about emacs. A lot of unix tools
even. "Stubbornly insisting on being odd" appears to be a particularly
prevalent character flaw among the geeknoscenti.