From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: http://www.norvig.com/paip/ Date: 08 Jul 2006 14:54:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152384900 26311 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2006 18:55:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 20:54:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzHx8-0005ib-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzHx8-00049D-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzHwx-00048z-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzHwt-00048n-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzHwt-00048k-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FzHxa-0001KE-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FzHws-0005kF-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:54:38 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56809 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The code there is not free, so we can't possibly use it, > or recommend it at all. What does it have to do with Emacs > development? What was the reason for mentioning it here? it was a tangential example of the kinds of program reasoning that have been codified in the past, rather than a pointer to possibly useful code for inclusion in emacs, in response to a question on the feasibility (or perhaps applicability, i don't remember exactly) of mining "general-purpose functions" out of the lisp code distributed w/ emacs. anyway, i will try to keep in mind that mentioning non-free software is to be avoided on this list -- sorry about that. thi