[Eug-lug] Computer time

[Allen Brown]

Bob Miller wrote:
> The history lesson should make it obvious why emacs doesn't
> share the unix tools philosophy.

Finally a critisism of emacs that has some merit!
This is exactly correct.  Emacs tries to do everything.

OTOH, the micro-emacs clones don't try.  As a result they
are much smaller and load faster.

Netscape and Mozilla* share the same problem.  They all
try to do everything.  Yes, even thunderbird and firefox.
They try to be an editor.  And it is very frustrating
because they are crappy editors.
-- 
Allen Brown
   work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
         allen_brown at agilent.com	            abrown at peak.org
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