From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:17:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87612des3y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444551492 832 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 08:18:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 10:18:12 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 1ZlBpW-0003vc-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:18:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlBpW-0005TB-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlBpS-0005St-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlBpR-00083i-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlBpK-00083J-Ee; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54425 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlBpJ-0001cc-Nd; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66EF6E13B5; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:17:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski"'s message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:11:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:191200 Archived-At: Przemys=C5=82aw Wojnowski writes: > Hello everybody, > > Recently I was going through Emacs C code and immediately one thing > come to my mind: "Did anyone consider rewrite it a more maintainable > language?" :-) Emacs is mostly written in Emacs Lisp. C is used only for the core. Encapsulation, namespaces and modularity are not really an issue there as it is a closed and confined working set. They are an issue in Elisp. So if you are worried about maintainability, rewriting Elisp into a more maintainable language would be by far more effective. --=20 David Kastrup