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-- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list --
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+-- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file, --
+-- compiled from the public emacs-devel mailing list. --
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"Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of
course in divination.
There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
-- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
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+
+ "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+ "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do
+you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?"
+ "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+ -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability. It's a tossup."
+ "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+ Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup
+
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+
+Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango
+
+ "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?"
+ "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time."
+ "Isn't it already?"
+ "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is
+still out about that end of time thing."
+ -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup
+
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+
+ "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such
+constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
+ "42"
+ -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[...] So please do not delete anything."
+ "Done."
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the
+printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
+drivers?"
+ "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
+depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
+wouldn't worry about it too much."
+ -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney