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: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vbadp69k.fsf@gnu.org> <87egh1kx83.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444680024 11181 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 20:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 22:00:16 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 1ZljGY-0001pg-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:00:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljGX-0005F6-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljGR-000559-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljGQ-0007rx-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljGL-0007m2-Pw; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljGK-0006CD-W5; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:00:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87egh1kx83.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:43:08 +0200) 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:191390 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. ]]] I don't think we should rewrite Emacs into anything other than C. It would not be an improvement. Some parts of the Emacs C code could use rewriting -- for instance, the parts that deal with management of X windows. But there is no need to change to a different language. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.