From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:08:57 +0300 Message-ID: <837fmsoyqu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vbadp69k.fsf@gnu.org> <87egh1kx83.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3l1p4fn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8rpkvsu.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pp0kq0h7.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpusjmwo.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444666188 11196 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 16:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 18:09:30 2015 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 1ZlffG-0002WV-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlffF-0004xR-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlfeg-0004vm-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlfea-0006Ma-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:45497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlfea-0006MJ-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW400D007706Q00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:08:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW400DPI7IL1C90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:08:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wpusjmwo.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:191360 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:35 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > I think any language which is "better" (i.e. is known by more > > programmers) will have the same problems. >=20 > I'll like to insist on the fact that Elisp (a paradigm of niche > language) has plenty of contributors, while just a few people work = on > the part of Emacs which is written in that epitome of a succesful > language which is C. >=20 > Obviously, on this case, "popular" doesn't imply "better". I might even agree, but how does this contradict what I wrote and you cited? > It would be interesting to know how many new hackers the C core got= on, > say, the last 10 years, who made contributions beyond correcting th= e > occassional bug which is evident on a gdb backtrace. About 20.