LYNX-DEV Where is Zaire?

[Philip Webb]

impressed as i am by the erudition of lynx-dev subscribers,
am i the only one around who hasn't yet learned all the terminology?

  1  what is  linux ?
  2  what are  ncurses / slang ?
  3  what is  SSL ?
  4  what is the difference between  gethostbyname  &  LYgethostbyname ?
  5  what is  VMS ? -- presumably it has nothing to do with VM or CMS
     (i seem to remember VAXes using something like it years ago).
     no doubt it's irrelevant to ask why everyone doesn't use unix.

there is regularly expressed anguish at the fact that the terrible world
out there doesn't know about lynx, doesn't write good code & is generally
going to hell, BUT if lynx developers simply talk to one another in jargon
with never a gesture -- eg  [for the rest of you, SSL is whateveritis]  --
they really have only themselves to blame.

there are apparently people out there who read the washington post
who need to be told "Zaire is a large country in Central Africa"
& "It has been ruled with an iron hand for the past 30 yrs by Pres Mobutu":
that's why the wp & other journals include a few such sentences
in EVERY story they write about the latest from that unhappy place.

but perhaps what's good enough for the washington post
is not good enough for lynx-dev.
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