Re: Size of Gnus and Emacs

[Jambunathan K]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

>> Gnus, being larger than any program ever written
>> (allegedly) ...
>
> So, we just have to keep this up every day, and we will
> have covered most of Gnus by the time we retire!
>
> What they are saying is: Gnus, a module of Emacs, is
> bigger than Emacs, excluding all modules on the same
> level as Gnus (?)

I am jumping in the middle of the conversation.  So, I could be missing
some context.

Gnus manual is written by a prankster (or many pranksters).  It is not
the language of the priest, it is not the language of the layman, it is
a language of the poet (at places) un-inhibited, imaginative and
humorously irreverent.