Re: Words and their meanings

flaps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:

Graham Reed <greed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
*wavy lines*

Remember when Emacs was bigger than the OS you ran it on?

One of the joke expansions of "emacs" was "eight megabytes and continually
swapping".

Just _try_ to imagine modern application programs which were only so bloated
as to require eight megabytes of memory.

My zshes seem to fit in about 3MB of RSS each, and I defy anyone to call
zsh "not bloated" with a straight face.

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(let ((C call-with-current-continuation)) (apply (lambda (x y) (x y)) (map
((lambda (r) ((C C) (lambda (s) (r (lambda l (apply (s s) l)))))) (lambda
(f) (lambda (l) (if (null? l) C (lambda (k) (display (car l)) ((f (cdr l))
(C k))))))) '((#\J #\d #\D #\v #\s) (#\e #\space #\a #\i #\newline)))))
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