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<div class="date">30 Sep 2015</div>
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<p>
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Each week, I teach an after school class at my local Middle School.
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Today, while getting ready to present, I switched over to the
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browser tab containing my presentation and waited for the kids to
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take their seats.
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</p>
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<p>
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One girl raised her hand and asked about a browser tab that showed
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<a href="http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Emacs-Hackers/">Emacs Meetup</a>. Clearly she wouldn’t care about some old programming
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editor, but I quickly summarized so I could get to the lesson. She
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said she uses it to play snakes. I told her that she probably uses
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something else, as Emacs is just some old editor. She insisted.
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</p>
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<p>
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She quickly fired up Terminal on the Mac, typed <code>emacs</code>, and
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promptly entered <code>M-x snake</code>... How...how...did you do...know that?
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While I wrote a version of the snake game on my Apple ][ computer
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when I was a kid, I didn’t know that any one had written one for
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Emacs. Huh. Schooled in my editor by a kid.
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</p>
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<p>
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She also typed in <code>telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl</code>.
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</p>
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<p>
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She’s now my favorite.
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</p>
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