Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc.

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> It would be
> nice -- going back to programming languages -- if at least they had gotten
> standardized enough that a program (I mean just the marks on paper or screen)
> written in one environment would actually run as well in another environment
> of the same name -- stories of trying to take a BASIC program from CPM to DOS
> spring to mind.

This is the last thing that Microsoft desires: their monopoly depends on 
maintaining a high applications barrier to entry.

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