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That has been tried before. Results were... poor. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html
by slavik81 12y ago
That has been tried before. Results were... poor.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html
- DonHopkins 12y agoYou are correct, but please don't refer to the bastardized version of the Jargon file. Wikipedia has a much better and more accurate article, with actual quotes and citations instead of unsourced politically motivated mythology attributed to "some victims": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM >Critics of DWIM claimed that it was "tuned to the particular typing mistakes to which Teitelman was prone, and no others" and called it "Do What Teitelman Means" or "Do What Interlisp Means." - Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel, "The Evolution of Lisp" The person who bastardized and maintains the Jargon file is a racist, sexist nut job who built his career on attacking the Free Software movement, and who doesn't deserves anyone's respect or attention: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
- negativeview 12y agoThat... makes me very sad. I remember the old ESR. Knew that I hadn't heard of him in a long time, did not know he went a bit nutty...