Urk! You might well be right, I've been assuming he doesn't grok C++, which he doesn't use. This would be terrible, for as far as I'm concerned, his single gr

Urk! You might well be right, I've been assuming he doesn't grok C++, which he doesn't use. This would be terrible, for as far as I'm concerned, his single greatest contribution to computing is the EMACS philosophy that he developed out of a primitive set of TECO macros. (I believe everything else would have happened more or less, e.g. without Linux, BSD would be ruling now after a 2 year pause for that AT&T lawsuit.)