From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: enometh@meer.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:03:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jZ62I-0005Ol-FG@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd0792r3n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 12 May 2020 10:04:54 -0400)
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> > Unfortunately we need to know because we have to deal with your
> > misdesign of those features and language constructs.
I am sorry he said that to you. Those words were uncalled-for.
None of us is perfect, and none of us has time to consider every
contingency. So every program we write has shortcomings (and bugs,
too). If people use the program a lot, they will use it in ways we
did not imagine, and sometimes it won't handle them well.
C'est la programmation.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-05 20:20 Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-05 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 21:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-06 17:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-06 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 19:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-09 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 14:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09 15:06 ` tomas
2020-05-09 15:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-09 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 19:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-08 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 6:33 ` Madhu
2020-05-12 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 14:04 ` cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation) Stefan Monnier
2020-05-14 5:03 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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