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: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:43:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ledwx7sh.fsf@yahoo.com> <877cpfybhf.fsf@yahoo.com> <873503y66i.fsf@yahoo.com> <87fs3ur9u8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875y4moiiq.fsf@dataswamp.org> 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="18700"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 02:43:39 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 1qfV1e-0004gh-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qfV16-0002EL-7N; Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:43:04 -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 1qfV14-0002Dp-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:43:02 -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 1qfV13-0002cs-HI; Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:43:01 -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=lnOAxuT/C+ATgb/ioAyPQJDck+pIy/Nn7UI7iKwcuw0=; b=d5LZVe7KfRZ8 hB6XqAfvPOe0EETVsYaItV/BPm0DhtnZVRvwZo/Cg7ZGqze8rzbBpEquaoRXmnSlW0g52DE6yLkTz eVTkpmbDNQB2wHnEvjDJKFi4kcsoQVqGtmxFhzDwPkdsyquaAF53X/ZZFwHeCtmmtbcgXEDorzT0C r8xUGAKd8/yJe2uRWjZuO11bPSx5ybKdUq7mAsNe0YdOUXlvSPXTsXurKCS/wWyLePVCU8WH+MG5Z cj6mMnjiy4+GIeFjg7fAo5bOH3e1gSDbN28xmMgd9RcoJrrRu7T43aDvbwh1BwiMM3EetG30CciBi +OQEfB1dNKdrtljhWFO00w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qfV13-0007H2-82; Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:43:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875y4moiiq.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:54:05 +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:310450 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. ]]] > You are right, absolutely, but then I cannot see why people > can't push for a SBCL rewrite of Emacs? Because that is not up for decision. That decision is already made. If the question were up for decision, arguing for a certain choice would be normal participation. When it isn't, arguing for a choice is making life difficult. I have too much work to do, and I can't keep up. So does Eli. Eli can speak for himself, but if you make it necessary for me to spend more time on this, that is making difficulties. It is ok to discuss these questions on emacs-tangets, because discussing it there won't add to my burden. -- 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)