Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> It's all a pipe dream, no more, unless someone steps forward who
> really intends and is able to do the job.  And that is even before we
> start talking about which alternative language should that be,
> something that in itself is not a trivial decision.

Of course could I also tell what my favorite language is and why we
should rewrite Emacs in it.  But Eli is right - this probably will just
not happen now.

IMHO it would be better to concentrate on problems where we can be
productive.  Like answering Richards question in

  "Intro to Emacs Lisp Programming and lexical variables"

where he asked whether the manual should be updated for lexical scoping.

If we don't even have the manpower to answer such a simple question
after one month, we maybe should defer rewriting Emacs.  Yes, dreaming
is fun, but also the annoying tasks need to be done.


Michael.