Joey

>Jah i loved Qued. It reminded me very much of my imprinting on QED. i loved 
>the infinite buffers which you could put programs in. When i did my 
>dissertation i wrote a whole set of macros which would format it inTECO. Sadly 
>i cannot find anything like it now for the PC (or anywhere, though there seem 
>to be a few DOS only renditions). i would, almost, buy a Mac just to get the 
>editor back. Sadly it is not available on Apple either. Maybe some year i will 
>break down and learn some version of emacs.

greg
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from: Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]>
to: [email protected]
date: 17 November 2013 20:53
subject: Re: [Jchat] shorter + today's posts

Necroposting - didn't know the term, but indeed it did work.

>Nice "inside joke" (I trust) about Qued on Windows(TM) - happy to discuss my 
>history with Nisus if there is interest beyond the joke... :)

Here is what I tried (unsuccessfully I take it) to post earlier:

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Subject: Pedantic HTML project
This exposition for Unix shell commands is nicely done.

http://explainshell.com/

It would be interesting to have something similar for J
(graphic/verbose expansion of 5!:n)

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Subject: The project "an hour of coding" may have interesting
implications for the j community

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/11/15/1342249/zuckerberg-to-teach-10-million-kids-0-based-counting

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Weird way to have to start threads ....

- joey

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from: greg heil <[email protected]>
to: Chat forum <[email protected]>
date: 17 November 2013 20:17
subject: Re: [Jchat] shorter

>It is called necroposting. But maybe it is part of Joeys strategy for getting 
>through! It did work.

>Say when are we going to see Qued on Windows(TM)?

greg
~krsnadas.org

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from: Donna <[email protected]>
to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
date: 17 November 2013 19:54
subject: Re: [Jchat] shorter

New threads can be helpful

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from: Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]>
to: [email protected]
date: 17 November 2013 19:33
subject: Re: [Jchat] shorter

>Earlier today, I tried two posts to the forum <[email protected]> - neither 
>of them came back to me. I'm guessing they didn't make it to others as well. 
>So this is a reply to an existing thread to see if that might have better 
>success...

>If this gets back to me, I may try a similar tactic to send the earlier ones 
>again. Or, if someone knows the secret to getting a new thread started, please 
>let me know...
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