From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y4q69m4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418850923 12582 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 21:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sven Axelsson , emacs To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 22:15:17 2014 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 1Y1LwD-0007uO-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:15:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LwC-0001sV-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1Lvk-000186-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1Lvb-00010k-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:47608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1LvS-0000iS-2T; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:30 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB6585A4C; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D921E5B8A; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D9A87B40DF; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:14:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y4q69m4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:17:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:180252 Archived-At: > Well, rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp has been done once or twice (I seem > to remember something called Hemlock for example). The net attraction > for new developers as compared to the old ones did not really seem to > give those projects a significant boost as compared to Emacs. He didn't say Common Lisp, he said Haskell of CoffeeScript. Of course, Common Lisp won't attract many new contributors, but just think of the hordes of Haskell programmers, Stefan "I'd vote for Agda, instead, tho"