From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:26 +0200 Message-ID: <525AA126.2000001@gmx.net> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> <874n8mgph4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381671207 30615 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2013 13:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 15:33:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VVLnV-0005Hi-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVLnU-0004Vv-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVLnD-0004Va-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVLn6-00045O-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVLn6-00045J-83 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VVLn4-00050m-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:02 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-188-100-165-077.pools.arcor-ip.net ([188.100.165.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:02 +0200 Original-Received: from kai.grossjohann by dslb-188-100-165-077.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-188-100-165-077.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.8 (Macintosh/20130427) In-Reply-To: <874n8mgph4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93984 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > > "A complete rewrite..." Wouldn't that be a total > disaster? Why would you do that? Because of hardware > changes? Portability? Please explain :) If the programmers don't know how to write maintainable code and don't know how to refactor, then the code gets worse and worse and at one point needs to be rewritten. I heard that's not so uncommon for commercial software projects. Kai