From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egvaxshd.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410966588 24282 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2014 15:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 17:09:41 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 1XUGrT-0008Pe-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGrS-0005di-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGr8-0005dJ-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGr1-0002A9-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:54358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGr1-00024R-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpZEG/2dsb2JhbABZDoJ4g0rAPYEXF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjBQsLNBIUGA2IKAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqgnBcIQ X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpZEG/2dsb2JhbABZDoJ4g0rAPYEXF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjBQsLNBIUGA2IKAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqgnBcIQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="90093787" Original-Received: from 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.145.6]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 17 Sep 2014 11:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 906C962FAE; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87egvaxshd.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:54:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:174436 Archived-At: > Well, Emacs is a text editor. The CPU demands of the task haven't > increased that much over the last 10 years either. Remember when Emacs was the big&slow editor? Now compare Emacs to Eclipse and you'll see that the resources that can be used for "text editing" are ... limitless Stefan