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: Adding a generic mathematical library Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o76ik616.fsf@gmail.com> <87wml6e4v0.fsf@dataswamp.org> 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="21029"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 04:54:12 2024 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 1sYd08-0005K8-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:54:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYczn-0007ap-HG; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:51 -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 1sYczl-0007ab-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:50 -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 1sYczl-0005Uo-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:49 -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=kgjcHN4lUibcOhKP8l5reG7dM12CB9r90WY8p5+W498=; b=HyqmkTkRnnOr NVRZtSSoGrA4J210VMueXKzVExe0/+e+HCxRcd3GU1j6ug+d2QxQuwUzYwm+leRRIGu3z9kG0rLEf rsrkKU9XQPEW8SlkfxeI7Jj5D2v79q8kqgQmuX/YWJJVyYKDcY0C4FS4bMmZHq2dYM9CZ56uGOgd9 yzRVzQpFRFUQb3wDhq2ENzSgGN7n3dOtoTkauMG5DCgrkisB8mgJQdUGkakU4Acf8ZlPPEQbHjTTD DlsWKJNPhlB9amJeeGfRocFI1f69p0qzGR0jH/eU4jV0knEVNROhSvq7Govs7fGSgcqwBfb2Jl+a9 5zFgmcG5vr7M6dy4Bt2LLQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYczk-00035t-87; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wml6e4v0.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:29:23 +0200) 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:322202 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. ]]] It seems to me that writing a generic mathematical library is not very hard, but writing a good one requires a lot of experience and understanding of how suc a library could be used. The obvious solutions are clunky, but what makes for a good kibrary is a solution that is elegant. -- 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)