From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:46:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83twx2xoc8.fsf@gnu.org> <87619hke3u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <551A3F17.6020903@math.ntnu.no> <20150331085055.GA2871@acm.fritz.box> <87zj6tiko1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331104935.GB2871@acm.fritz.box> <87y4mdi7tj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331214347.GH2871@acm.fritz.box> <20150401103225.GA2633@acm.fritz.box> <87h9t080gx.fsf@javad.com> <83384jsx3o.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp7nrfdn.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yqr226.fsf@gnu.org> <831tk2qvz5.fsf@gnu.org> <87384ii26v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9sxglnv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428158836 15941 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2015 14:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 04 16:47:08 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 1YePLn-000786-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:47:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePLm-000847-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePLW-000801-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePLV-0000KJ-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:46:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePLV-0000KB-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YePLU-0001Kr-GR; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:46:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h9sxglnv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:184865 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The explanation you quote is simple. It is precisely equivalent to > "cons creates a cons [object] from its arguments". Is that a grave > flaw in Lisp? Lisp is a programming language. What is good in a programming language is a big nuisance in a version control system. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.