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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 15:22:29 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:04:04 +0100
>>
>> > I actually don't understand why are we talking about compilers as the
>> > only viable infrastructure for the features being discussed.
>>
>> It's basically the UNIX philosophy to employ dedicated tools for the job
>> they have been written for.
>
> I'm not at all sure this philosophy is applicable to the issue at
> hand, or to complex interactive environments the kind of Emacs in
> general. We are a long way from the classic batch-mode Unix pipeline,
> where (AFAIK) this philosophy originated.
[...]
Well, I tried summarizing my view of the situation, and you summarized
yours. We arrive at different conclusions from what appears like the
same information. But I suppose we have a sufficient amount of
summaries to have people wanting to take some action see what may and
may not work to take them where.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, (continued)
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Engster, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, John Yates, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/02
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