From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: APL mode Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:03:51 +0100 Message-ID: <525C23F7.40903@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381770247 26612 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2013 17:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 14 19:04:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VVlYu-0006Ox-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:04:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVlYu-0005Lg-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVlYm-0005Ko-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVlYg-0005Rt-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:49415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVlYg-0005Ro-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.19] (87-198-55-19.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA 4" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C37953C03A; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:03:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130922 Icedove/17.0.9 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 65.99.215.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164208 Archived-At: On 12/10/13 05:48, Rustom Mody wrote: > Is anyone working on this?? FWIW, for completeness, I can think of some other related work: A+ (another APL derived language, also GPL*) has long bundled an XEmacs mode for A+ in its source tarball. However, you may well be better off going your own way, IIRC it doesn't really adhere to emacsy conventions and I don't think it was GNU Emacs compatible anyway. http://www.aplusdev.org/APlusRefV2_52.html#HEADING605 (As it happens, J, a powerful ASCIIfied APL language, also went GPL recently. No Free APL for ages than 3 come along at once, etc. (well, A+ has been free for a fairly long time)) * and bear in mind "GPL" doesn't mean "copyright assigned to FSF" - relevant for emacs contribs.