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From: farren@gethen.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU security, size
Message-ID: <278@gethen.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 05:04:25 EST
Article-I.D.: gethen.278
Posted: Mon Nov  2 05:04:25 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 20:03:40 EST
References: <7399@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland
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Keywords: GNU security, size

In article <7399@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes:
>... RMS is right to put the emphasis on making things fast and simple
>instead of squeezing out bytes.  In a few more years we'll all have
>desk top PC's with 64Mb.  So why sweat it?

But GNU Emacs is neither fast nor simple.  Why sweat it?  Because we
have to; we don't have desk top PC's with 64MB, and when we do, who's 
to say that GNU won't have grown to follow?

Please note:  this is NOT a flame about RMS's programming ability.  GNU
Emacs is a wonderful thing, especially considering the manner in which
it has been written and distributed.  Thanks are due to RMS for having
done it at all, but I sure do wish that he'd done it more compactly.

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Michael J. Farren      "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
unisoft!gethen!farren   that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa             Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"