Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:31:44 +0100
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> It is not *my* goal, and it is used here to steer people away from
> working on Semantic's C++ parser, saying it is pointless if it can never
> do refactoring, which is a *much* harder problem than providing
> completions. I don't see the point in discouraging people like that.

Right.

> As always: unless someone starts working on these things, nothing will
> happen, and surely nothing comes out of those centi-threads we seem to
> have every month nowadays.

Indeed, I hope someone will put their money where their mouth is, and
start coding.