From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Basic Bazaar guide for Emacs hackers. Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:43 +0900 Message-ID: <878wdoybjg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87skbzblp5.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y6log42q.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259548903 20448 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2009 02:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 03:41:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEwCm-0005aL-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEwCl-0002WI-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEwCg-0002W5-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEwCc-0002VV-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43803 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEwCb-0002VS-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:42786) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEwCb-0005Wd-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8479D1535AE; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:41:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D1131A290A; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:43 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117946 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > Interesting. In science someone (very familiar) said "make it simple, > but not too simple". And Saunders Mac Lane, who is not at all familiar -- except to some of you, I suspect -- said "[G]ood general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality."