The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

Thu Oct 4 00:45:07 EDT 2007

In message <mailman.1486.1191449321.2658.python-list at python.org>, Steve
Holden wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In message <l0h7g3tqsgjs948i5o2pb0u2m87m2hbtf0 at 4ax.com>, George Neuner
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dictionaries used to be the arbiters of the language ...
>> 
>> No they didn't. Before Doctor Johnson, there were no dictionaries.
> 
> And before the Big bang there was nothing (perhaps). What's your point?

That dictionaries were not some kind of Big Bang.