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: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:34:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.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 1444779405 18947 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 23:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:36:45 +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 Wed Oct 14 01:36:36 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 1Zm97S-0001AS-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 01:36:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm97R-0000O2-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm95i-00072C-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm95h-0004Z2-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm95a-0004V9-Cf; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm95Z-0003C2-T3; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:34:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:21:46 +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:191518 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. ]]] > Or a more radical approach: a Lispy language, easy to learn by those who > already know Elisp, but which can be translated all the way to something > as performant as the current C code, while being capable of interacting > with it. This would be a tremendous amount of work, for a mere cleanup: it would not make Emacs any better to use, for anyone. It would not greatly help future development either. I urge people to think instead about implementing useful features, such as handling more kinds of formatted text, or various features for a more powerful IDE (many of these are lacking). -- 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.