From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:03 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5501FF43.6000802@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> <87r3suotqh.fsf@gmx.de> 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 1426194289 12766 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 21:04:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Zack Piper , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 22:04:36 2015 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 1YWAHS-0003Sw-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:04:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAHR-0001h3-On for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAHF-0001go-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAHA-00058E-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:59660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAH9-00057v-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1E8A60009; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id guECHjrpxU+E; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DFA31A60031; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <87r3suotqh.fsf@gmx.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:183834 Archived-At: On 03/12/2015 01:17 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: >> Like most games, it's only for "7 to 77", but it looks like you're still >> within the limits. > Oh shit! I'll become 59 this year; just 18 years left for Emacs hacking. > > Will be there a way to shift the upper limit? Sure: switch to base 16. That's what Turing would have done.