[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

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On 11 Nov 2010, Richard Jones uttered the following:
> It's just a shame the designer didn't learn a few other programming
> languages first.  (I seem to recall Gosling's major contribution to
> the world of programming before that was to rewrite Emacs in C, more
> here[1].  'Nuff said really.)

And his major prior contribution to the world of politics was to piss
off RMS badly enough that he wrote the GPLv1 specifically to put Emacs
under it.  (Rumour has it that this wasn't entirely due to his actions,
more to his words. Gosling is about as good at diplomacy as RMS. I can
understand that.)

I think rewriting Emacs in C was probably a worthwhile contribution: all
previous versions were in TECO, which was probably not a long-term
viable implementation language!
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