Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[David Kastrup]

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