OT? On Programming (was: Re: Computers for children)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 11:07:05 1999

On Jan 17, 8:12, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Subject: Re: OT? On Programming (was: Re: Computers for children)
> ::> I'd hate to hear what you have to say about Elm, which is my
favourite
> ::> mailer. :-)
> ::
> ::Mine too. But it badly needs to be updated to support metamail and
mime
> ::message creation from within elm and support stuff like pgp.
>
> Actually, it does. PL25 ME39 (which comes in the Debian dist, ask me for
the
> tarball) supports in-process attachments and PGP. And PL25, which is
> commonly available, supports MIME through metamail.

I've had almost zero exposure to elm, so I'm not in much of a position to
comment -- not that that always stops me :-)

I'd guess elm (which is what pine was originally based on) is smaller,
sleeker, and simpler. Not a bad thing...

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 11:07:05 GMT

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