Re: Adding a generic mathematical library

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg" <incal@dataswamp.org>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library
>
> Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." wrote:
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> > I don't understand why it would be a good idea to start
> > from scratch.
>
> Maybe we should have a math library in ELPA, then it will be
> less hesitation to just add stuff that is desired as we go
> along, not having to argue what relevance it has to Emacs
> per se as a piece of text editing software.

The problem that usually occurs is that once things are in place
things would be much more difficult to change in design.  Because
we tend to be quite strict about not breaking their previous use.

> In general libraries for everything is a good way of not
> having people write code that solves the same problems over
> and over. Optimally what would happen is you would know where
> to look for things and if it wasn't there, you'd write it _and
> then add it to that same place_, so what happened won't repeat
> itself for the next dude in the same situation.
>
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