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 16:01:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87612des3y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0lrrlo.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444680549 19571 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 20:09:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esperanto@cumego.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 22:08:59 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 1ZljOz-0001pA-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:08:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljOz-0003JW-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljI0-0007UI-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljHz-0000el-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljHn-0000XX-W1; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljHn-0001xC-Fx; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:01:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87pp0lrrlo.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:02:43 +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:191394 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. ]]] > That is, it might be a good idea to move some parts of Emacs core (which > are not system-dependent or performance-critical, e.g., parts of > interactive behavior like `self-insert-command' might fit here) from > C to Elisp. We would gain at least two (connected) important things > this way: In days long ago, When clocks were so slow, These basic keystrokes Took too long for folks, Unless they were writ In C code to flit. Today that's not so, In Lisp they can go. -- 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.