X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/ac2072cdbfcdc61c55df78303e753b5c0bdff4bb..4b6748966837181df5602f1f8e542e90ec207ad5:/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR index 9e7e4a9910..091c267579 100644 --- a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR +++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ -- -- -- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list -- -- -- +-- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file, -- +-- compiled from the public emacs-devel mailing list. -- +-- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of @@ -157,3 +160,37 @@ readable? serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?" -- RMS and David Kastrup + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +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 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "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