Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp

This university is famous. In my circles, and from what I've read; Carnegie Mellon University is considered to have one of the best Computer Science departments. Ubuntu 9.04 has the package cmucl. Now I have a lisp call in /usr/bin/lisp. I also have Common Lisp in /usr/bin/clisp.

I had been avoiding Emacs (Editing Macros); not anymore. At Lucent I didn't use Vi, nor Emacs. I want to learn emacs now. I have Xemacs also, even Slime. I hope I do not get too distracted from my Mechanics class. Like an antidote I write this note.

First I want to thank Richard Stallman. Now I will know him by his products.

The story I know is that Stallman rejected the move of Unix to the business sector, from the academic one. His rebellion was productive and now we can all benefit from his intellectual work. Even a modest professor in the third world, like myself, can use it, at no charge.

Thanks Richard Mathew Stallman, rms.

Here you have a physics analogy.

It is difficult to understand how the study of a free falling object can lead us to understand the Universe as a whole. These days the European Planck collaboration published the picture that represents more than a year of data taking using their telescope in orbit. Here its :

It is equally difficult for me to understand how a mere word processor, could lead to an operating system. I think it is so, and I am in my way of finding exactly how.