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Re:25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG w... by groups on Thursday November 21, 2013 @04:31PM (#6777649)
Yes I think Emacs' philosophy is at odds with UNIX philosophy; I also think it's /superior to/ UNIX philosophy. It sounds like you take UNIX philosophy to be gospel, and deviation from that to be incorrect. I'm not trying now to convert you to Emacs' philosophy. Rather I think there are a lot of people who only know UNIX philosophy, when in fact there are alternatives.
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Re:25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG w... by chris_mahan on Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:56PM (#6778966)
The Unix philosophy addresses this as well, in Eric S. Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming: Rule 12: Rule of Diversity: Distrust all claims for "one true way". (See http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2879... )
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