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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Okay--I give; why is Emacs so great?
Message-ID: <197@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 06:33:18 GMT
References: <490@blake.acs.washington.edu> <NELSON.89Jan5214342@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>[The Right Way to write an editor is to start with a language and add
>text editing primitives]

Actually, I think it's very close to being true that all Real Programs
are turing-equivalent.  To put it another way, I'm considering using the
definition if it doesn't have a powerful macro language, it's not a Real
Program.

Of course, this disqualifies the Unix kernel, X windows, and a lot of other
things, so I need to do a teensy bit of refinement...
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)