Comment by DonHopkins
9 hours ago
I named my cat Emacs, and he's only three years old. His sister's name is Pip.
And to answer the question I get a lot: no, it would be morally reprehensible to name a cat after an inferior editor such as "vi".
9 hours ago
I named my cat Emacs, and he's only three years old. His sister's name is Pip.
And to answer the question I get a lot: no, it would be morally reprehensible to name a cat after an inferior editor such as "vi".
I often thought that a cat could be named /bin/cat. After all, many cats seem to enjoy being in boxes or bins!
You're likely aware of this, and certainly Don is, but for those unaware, PIP was the RSX-11 and CP/M equivalent to /bin/cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program
I'm going to name my next cat after my favorite Apple ][ DOS command:
]CATALOG
And my next dog after the way you warm restart DOS after you hit RESET with Integer Basic ROMs and get thrown into Woz's system monitor:
*3D0G
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS#Technical_details
And his brothers /bin/bzcat, /bin/pacat, /bin/netcat and /bin/sqfscat.
So your cat is about to get fired?
I can only imagine that Pip is an orange cat with typical orange cat characteristics like being crazy and breaking things occasionally.
You are correct: Nominative and chromatic determinism strikes again!
Emacs is a powerful, flexible, majestic, extensible silver tabby, so he also acts like his namesake: textual and functional determinism.
But does he have a gap buffer?
He is cute though.
you can get a dog and call it vi
I’m a cat person but I also am fond of dogs so I would consider that unkind.
I still think you should have called your company Wingnut instead of Cygnus.