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From: mitch@stride1.UUCP (Thomas P. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 19:44:22 EDT
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In article <8520@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ... Additionally, Stallman prefers
>> working with larger address spaces because..
>
>A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
>program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.

A charitable view of this is that Stallman shouldn't.  The large
number of recent TeX implementations faster and smaller (code
size) than the original take nothing away from the design of D.
Knuth. Large to small transitions will be in response to a useful
design cleanly defined.

Here most of us sit with sh, csh, sed, awk, lex, yac, 'C',
assembler etc. yet some of us forget why all these tools were
collected into what I think of as Unix.  Recall that many 'C'
programs were first designed in Shell, sed, awk, etc. Later
rewritten in 'C' perhaps linked to libraries optimized in
assembler.  Those that have survived were useful and also
cleanly defined.

So .. Go for it RMS. and thanks for GNU Emacs. 
And thanks to others for all the different architectures which
keep us from all being little blue sm*fs.
Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
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MicroSage Computer Systems Inc. a Division of Stride Micro.
Opinions expressed are probably mine.