From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Sep 05 13:54:07 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29952 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2000 20:54:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Sep 2000 20:54:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2000 20:54:05 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04611; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:54:04 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39B55D62.6B5D1A1E@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:53:54 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com, "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan 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. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein