From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shrinking the C core Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ledwx7sh.fsf@yahoo.com> <877cpfybhf.fsf@yahoo.com> <873503y66i.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36948"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 04:08:22 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qbX6c-0009Nw-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qbX67-0004xw-9B; Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qbX65-0004sS-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qbX64-0006OC-M8; Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=OxQEUeDLMGjWiWvVrjdrxgil7GkPasdDILyd5SnRaQ4=; b=fhDuSfuU1y5n ij5FmPj955wiDlqsAvbqWIoZMm7m+JRoaQ39qSDOQ590P6cKg3wSE0WjZqMUv+zrkbXCq1dknvwc5 uQ3D+Y2uB/RyYr5iVmAFvTMg4YD8AC3lax0ve0lozNewwPtP/YIDaCfyAd3CmgH8BUez5vb+QhKPE j8c0M1p6gDaLotkzE02ConytjXO8Ii2vW0HIRpRXglu2wmt/gPssAvD4iizDZVCGYpkDd//Jp4ZYG Z9+hzMUSEaiXCz9jppdl3zNyL+nESAbYPV0NWXF5nh7kBgpjv1PxUleagKarRAAmJQuaOrLzkNXMf R2S7sjGj3S0lAXbSrhzhyA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qbX63-0003Ty-Rn; Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:08:58 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309578 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. ]]] Would you please stop arguing for rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp? It is a non-starter. It would be an enormouse job -- including rewriting the Emacs Lisp Referance Manual. We can't be sure how much the benefit would be, because Common Lisp has some drawbacks too. But we know the cost is prohibitive. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)