From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cc-mode fontification feels random Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:39:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86a85d26-75c0-e4a3-e8d3-244c5346dd3a@dancol.org> <83r1hehnz9.fsf@gnu.org> <83lf7mhl3n.fsf@gnu.org> <73ff18bf-66dc-7d7a-a0db-8edc2cdceba8@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26904"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, eliz@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 09 05:40:39 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lqp54-0006nG-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2021 05:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqp52-0004JX-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqp4D-0003Zf-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqp4A-0005Pg-Ck; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqp49-00037j-5L; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:39:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:29:07 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:270589 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > All I meant is that given the increase of performance of CPUs (until the > beginning of this century) and a non-corresponding increase in file size > and complexity of language syntax, programmers nowadays prefer correct > behavior over fast behavior, since the correct behavior is fast enough > anyway to be bearable. That makes sense, in general. But the alternatives available to us may not give us a good way to adjust that tradeoff. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)