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Citadel
02-18-2004, 09:05 PM
Who is a better programmer, ESR or RMS?
sharth
02-18-2004, 10:30 PM
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ esr=`grep "Raymond" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l`
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ rms=`grep "Stallman" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l`
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ if [ $esr -gt $rms ]
> then
> echo "ESR For Life";
> else
> echo "RMS For Life";
> fi
RMS For LifeThe code speaks for itself, does it not?
sharth
02-18-2004, 10:46 PM
However, on round 2...

http://xrl.us/bhsj
sharth
02-18-2004, 10:47 PM
On round 3...

RMS squeaked out 28 results on amazon while ESR only got 7!
Citadel
02-18-2004, 11:32 PM
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ esr=`grep "Raymond" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l`
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ rms=`grep "Stallman" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l`
sharth@mini-sharth:/usr/share/doc$ if [ $esr -gt $rms ]
> then
> echo "ESR For Life";
> else
> echo "RMS For Life";
> fi
Bruce Perens for President
sharth
02-18-2004, 11:56 PM
Wtih robot101 as vice-president! :D
Citadel
02-19-2004, 12:05 AM
Actually I'm amazed that it was RMS who wrote the original Emacs. On his website he claims to have writen the original GCC. And he started the Free Sofware Foundation. That's some cool things. Yet he looks like a psycho killer.
Citadel
02-19-2004, 12:12 AM
RMS would make a great Mad Eye Moody in the next Harry Potter film.
roamingnomad
02-19-2004, 12:28 AM
I was under the impression that the original EMACS program was for non-Unix systems, and RMS wrote a clone for his GNU HURD?
Citadel
02-19-2004, 01:23 AM
Probably true, but he wrote an Emacs be it orginal or clone or clown. The guy graduated from Harvard. He's wrote the gdb debugger. He worked at MIT in the Artificial Intelligence lab. I guess that he rejected money though. Why else would be become a bear wrestler.
Citadel
02-19-2004, 02:30 AM
Eric S Redmond (ESR) is going to GPL Java, otherwise he will have to make Perl and Python superior, or else just use Mono.

If he thinks that he can write the code he will do it, however his priorities are still dungeons and dragons. That's where he gets all of this power. Otherwise he would have to go into hiding like Stallman and Bobby Fischer, they went from hackers, to crackers, and now they are quakers, living out in the country.

I think that RMS won this battle, but we have not seen the last of ESR!