vi vs. emacs

[Joel Spolsky]

In article <1208 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Funny, this Emacs doesn't seem to have lisp. In fact, it's got a sort
>of forth-like language. Oh, this one over here doesn't even have that
>much. Hmmmm... are we comparing vi to GNU Emacs only, or to all
>Emacsen? I dare say that GNU Emacs might make a believer out of me...
>if only I could run it on this poor old 80286.

>From his .sig:

>"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"




Running gnu Emacs on a '286 is a little bit like making a time machine
out of a VW beetle... :-)

BTW does anyone have a good Common Lisp interpreter for my HP41C?

Joel Spolsky