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#38002
Please remove this joke
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Reported by: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:35:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: fixed, patch
Fixed in version 27.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On 2019-11-01, at 21:30, nipponpost <at> airmail.cc wrote:
> A joke is not a bug: it has /absolutely/ nothing to do with the
> operation of the software; it isn't even /part/ of the software.
The Emacs manual explicitly claims that unclear documentation is a bug
(in the docs). I think that you can say the same about a bad joke.
Fun fact: I am currently writing a book (a pretty serious textbook on
advanced mathematics, by three authors), and I've put a fair share of
jokes in it. A reviewer asked to remove one of them. I was slightly
sad, but I did it without much hesitation. (Though both the reviewer
and me agreed that it was not _bad_ per se.)
> What it is, is a makers' mark.
> A signature.
> A piece of the author.
> "This is me, this is part of my personality"
You could apply exactly the same words to some bugs. Yet, we remove
them.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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