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What are your must-have programs?
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It comes also with a doctor, you can invoke it with "M-x doctor". I discovered Emacs in the 80s, used it a lot in uni in the 90s, Emacs is a religion, or an OS, it's so powerful it's incredible. Nowadays I'm mostly using code for coding, or simply nano for small scripts/text.
Doctor, Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken!
Too much fun! Like many other Comp. Sci. students, I spent way too many hours trying to get Eliza, an automated psychiatrist from MIT, to say something shocking. Weizenbaum, the developer, "was surprised and shocked that individuals, including his secretary, attributed human-like feelings to the computer program." In this sense AI is nothing new because Eliza passed the Turing Test in 1967.
80s/90s was the good old time, no web, only irc, gopher, usenet, things like this
Philosophy is a subset of religion, and there is a definitely an Emacs philosophy about making absolutely all software hackable, and controlling the computer using text.
App platforms are a subset of operating systems. People confuse the two because most app platforms are inseparable from the operating system on which they run. But some software, like the Web, or Java, or to some extent .NET/Mono, are app platforms that run the same apps across multiple operating systems. Emacs is an app platform.