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Re: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:24 -0400

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  > Doing so would require reinventing the wheel of reading the dictionary
  > files, something that dict servers already implement.  Why not let the
  > server do its job?

The point is, whoever decided to say this was "the server's job"
was following a dangerous design philosophy.  When some job can
be done locally, we should not say that that job belongs to servers.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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