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: Shrinking the C core Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:58:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ledwx7sh.fsf@yahoo.com> <877cpfybhf.fsf@yahoo.com> <873503y66i.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="25632"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 02:59:08 2023 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 1qdgst-0006RA-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgsc-00070E-6W; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgsZ-0006zv-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgsX-0008Ij-Sm; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:58:45 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=V4CBF9dQZHyM/q1BT3MI4aAiZ2Npm5a5ukubJJsUj/U=; b=eFKxuzKfLZs0 XRwedHGxOjVYiPoeoufNNz3JHh2w8AvfwN5m6A8s9d4VP+pLLIkrE2E2Kehig39U8lfpAC+GEnvM5 F+QYP2bkHWSNSPvYpcQT0c7rphE2CUYhnbnZcond5vzzA0TajHud71YuvMmPHX82Z8vVeUKaBDPl3 dzy9L889NphDyGp2Jha/vug7+fqKnPjSbCIhIgE8i2pAknUIs396MQvVShYOaEHPrr3oO9NB7f/0O nmvHKIzeQry0/mdkDpEs9A05Sw69fpUS55KsmbmxKscI9bFihOTZtGoxizSGQvq2Aa+yPK+vrJNR2 XP7u3pZfXM1gyqfC6UD+eQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgsR-0000j8-BN; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:58:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:47 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310160 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. ]]] > Would you please stop arguing for rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp? It > is a non-starter. > It would be an enormouse job -- including rewriting the Emacs Lisp > Referance Manual. Also, there are aspects of Common Lisp which i rejected as clumsy and best avoided. All those keyword arguments! I intentionally excluded tham from Emacs and I am not going to let them in. -- 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)