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Ejacs

<p> OK, so the thing about today&#39;s hackers is that they&#39;re often strikingly funny.</p> <p> So even if you don&#39;t care about javascript or emacs, much less javascript <strong>and</strong> emacs, you should go read <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html">Steve Yegge&#39;s discussion of implementing javascript in emacs lisp</a> because all of the digressions and other silliness are sure to make you laugh.</p> <p> I mean, here&#39;s Steve discussing the name:</p> <blockquote> <p>In that blog I mentioned I was working nights part-time (among other things) on a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs, written entirely in Emacs Lisp. I also said I didn&#39;t have a name for it. A commenter named Andrew Barry suggested that I should not call it Ejacs, and the name stuck.</p>
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Michael Alan Dorman