From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: emacs stands for WHAT??!!!!! (long list)
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.114248.25939@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 11:42:48 GMT
What does EMACS mean?
Officially: Editing MACroS.
Unofficially:
Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler
Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal
Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales
Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified
Emacs Means A Crappy Screen
Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
Even My Aunt Crashes the System
Eradication
of Memory Accomplished
with Complete Simplicity
Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive
Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman
Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly
Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility
Easily Maintained
with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions
EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM
Edwardian Manifestation
of All Colonial Sins
Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists
Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous
Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software
Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple
Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups
Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed
Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion
Extensibilty
and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons
Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures
Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies
Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink
Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists
EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price
Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller
Embarrasingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales
Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior
Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System
EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters
Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler
Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission
Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex
Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non
Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo-
Macros Are Completely Slow
Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen
Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells
Eradication of Memory Accomplished
with Complete Simplicity
Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures
Eleven thousand
Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans
Emacs Makes All Computing Simple
Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays
In reference to the odd hours that went into the creation of my
implementation. -- ihnss!warren (Warren Montgomery) 10 Sep 85
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And while we're on the topic...
GNU = GNU's Not UNIX
GNU = Generally Not Used
FINE = FINE Is Not Emacs
THIEF = THief Isn't Even Fine
MINCE = Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs
SINE = Sine Is Not Emacs (MIT Architecture Machine Group)
EINE = Eine is Not Emacs
ZWEI = Zwei Was Eine Initially
DREI = DREI: Really Emacs Inside
(exists only in the mind of Paul Bennett (ulysses!pajb)
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