Context: https://tess.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms
i mean the mailing lists got it right, children are temporary emacs is forever
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I'm sure Emacs can reproduce.
Yeah there’s an elisp file for that somewhere
Wait, I just realized that that exists. It's called a quine. I trust that the Founding Fathers of Emacs were genius enough to make it a quine.
That's why they're the Founding Fathers
The Founding Daddies, if you will.
Credited with writing the manuscripts of the GNU GPL, in its original, unamended form
It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of.
It helps more people, too.
LMAO
Where's the lie
It's just a really weird thing to say
Was that one of the ones from the Megan era?
In order to contribute a fix, you have to reproduce a bug.
Akshully it's GNU/Emacs.
No, it's GNU Emacs.
I assumed this meant reproducing the same functionality in a new editor instead of contributing to Emacs, the reality is so much better
Sorry you had to go through having a baby...
One of the rare absolute Ws for RMS
corwin does both...