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: Apologia for bzr Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:14:56 +0900 Message-ID: <87y52ui9cv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140103152117.GA16679@c3po> <20140104082857.GA22010@thyrsus.com> <874n5ikap7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140105115200.GA6309@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388945714 27198 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 18:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Richard Stallman , Emacs-Devel devel To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 19:15:19 2014 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 1VzsEI-0008F3-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzsEI-0008Q9-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzsE8-0008Pt-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzsE1-0008BL-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:46499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzsE1-0008AC-7X; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD4A9707DD; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 03:14:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BEEF41A2E7D; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 03:14:56 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140105115200.GA6309@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167386 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond writes: > An important difference is that git porcelain is rather a shambles > compared to Emacs Lisp - usable, but ugly and sharp-edged. Yeah, but in computer time Elisp is to git as David is to Jesus: the great^24-grandfather. That's a bit of an unfair comparison. When Emacs was git's age, its extension language was TECO and when you typed C-g in a minibuffer it laughed at you and refused to quit!