{"id":6004,"date":"2009-08-06T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/06\/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:51:15","slug":"is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Is emacs the OS for MSNBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that lisp programmers have taken over the formatting of the dummy-notes on MSNBC?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst, what are dummy notes.  Dummy notes are those phrases that show up near the bottom of the screen that summarize, in a word or two, what the person on the screen just said.  What I&#8217;ve noticed is that the dummy notes are now preceded with a single quote.  So, somewhere there is a list of dummy notes, with a producer or someone constantly adding to the bottom of the list, and some other producer or somebody, or a piece of software, selecting items off the top of the list and putting that item on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>And, at present, the items come through with the apostrophe attached to the beginning of the item.  This strongly argues that the computer programming language, lisp, which is a list processing language that uses this format, is at work here.  Indeed, it suggests that this entire thing is being done in emacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that lisp programmers have taken over the formatting of the dummy-notes on MSNBC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3353,415],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}