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Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors
Within the constraints of the Emacs environment, there are no limits. Emacs is built upon this principle; the Lisp principle. Make some small kernel of features. A substrate. Take care to make this substrate programmable (in any language, Emacs chooses Lisp), and then build the system upon it. Let users worry about…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Dec 26, 2013 | Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors by nkurz | 151 | 83 |
| Jul 29, 2019 | Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013) by signa11 | 86 | 57 |
