Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[David Kastrup]

Steinar Bang <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>> C++ is a dying language.  On my daytime job we have difficulty
>> recruiting C++ programmers for the last 2-3 years.
>
> Heh... I remember trying to teach some Java trained summer students
> about C++ smart pointers back in 2000 and getting blank stares in
> return...

"smart pointers"?  If the Oxymoron Series of XEmacs is still ongoing,
that sounds like a worthy release name.

-- 
David Kastrup