From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:12:18 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vbadp69k.fsf@gnu.org> <87egh1kx83.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3l1p4fn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8rpkvsu.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pp0kq0h7.fsf@gnu.org> <561B3038.8090405@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444638257 32513 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 08:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:24:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 10:24:10 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 1ZlYOp-0005vI-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlYOo-0006tC-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlYDm-0007fz-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlYDg-0001ay-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:12:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlYDg-0001Za-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlYDd-0004Hd-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by rainey.bang.priv.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:12:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rainey.bang.priv.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:udqTIDWyIUP9Jo8BP5i+iGG6IGg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:191305 Archived-At: >>>>> Paul Eggert : > The TIOBE Index isn't a perfect measure, of course. And I am not > advocating that we rewrite the Emacs core in Java. (FWIW it's already been done once, but the project doesn't seem to have been touched for a decade... http://jemacs.sourceforge.net/ (unless it has moved to a new home...? I found a 4 year old fork on github, but it hasn't preserved the old jemacs history, so it is hard to see what it adds... also the last commit was 4 years ago https://github.com/shadgregory/JEmacs ))