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Re: Standards for programming languages
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Xue Fuqiao |
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Re: Standards for programming languages |
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Sat, 20 Jul 2013 06:08:16 +0800 |
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> skribis:
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>> I changed the GNU Coding Standards to say that we no longer
>> prefer C to other such languages.
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> Thanks for doing this.
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> +speed, the best language to use is C. C++ is ok too, but please don't
> +make heavy use of templates. Other languages commonly used in the
> +free softwre community, such as Java, Python and Ruby, are ok too.
> What about mentioning Scheme here?
+1. After all it is our official extension language, and some projects
such as GnuCash, LilyPond and guile-emacs are using it. Guix also
provide Scheme APIs.
And Emacs Lisp, maybe? There are many Emacs Lisp projects in GNU, like
AUCTeX, EMMS, emacs-muse, Dismal, and W3.
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Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/