OT? On Programming (was: Re: Computers for children) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jan 1999

On Jan 17, 19:01, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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  Subject: Re: OT? On Programming (was: Re: Computers
for children) 
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  Pete Turnbul wrote:
 ::I'd guess elm (which is what pine was originally based on) is smaller,
 ::sleeker, and simpler.  Not a bad thing... 
...
  My original choice of elm was basically because you
got to pick from:

 	* cat $MAIL
 	* mailx
 	* elm 
cat??  You don't use dd?  ;-)

...
  Hmm, let me think ... uh ... let's try elm.

Sounds like a reasonable choice :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York