From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:17:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87mw6m9dt7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y4q69m4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418851145 16313 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 21:19:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sven Axelsson , emacs To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 22:18:58 2014 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 1Y1Lzl-0000i6-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:18:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1Lzl-0007MA-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LyN-0005EE-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LyJ-0002TH-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LyJ-0002TB-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36923 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LyI-0004eP-Le; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A973BE06DF; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:17:08 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180254 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Well, rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp has been done once or twice (I seem >> to remember something called Hemlock for example). The net attraction >> for new developers as compared to the old ones did not really seem to >> give those projects a significant boost as compared to Emacs. > > He didn't say Common Lisp, he said Haskell of CoffeeScript. > Of course, Common Lisp won't attract many new contributors, but just > think of the hordes of Haskell programmers, Just what I needed. An Emacs that will formally prove to me that redisplay has finished. -- David Kastrup