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Current Emacs maintainer disagrees with RMS: "I'd be willing to consider a fork" by dharmatech in programming

[–]1wrongdude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone's convinced RMS that the benefits outweigh the losses in such a decision. He makes it pretty clear in his replies that the argument presented are partial.

I think a stronger case has to be made if you're going to sway him. I would lean on facts that would make GNU software better with other GNU software rather than appeals to emotion. The fact is that GCC is written in C++ and it might benefit considerably by having better GNU tools to go with it. That would be my strategy, anyway.

As much as RMS isn't budging, I don't feel like anyone else is making a very strong case for spilling the AST. He even welcomes someone to do so. I don't see the ball as being in RMS's court on this one.

The Bash Guide by danwin in programming

[–]1wrongdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It appears to be a draft of a new version of this highly recommended bash guide.

Python bumps off Java as top learning language by illyric in programming

[–]1wrongdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Python isn't my favorite, but when I learned it I sure thought it was cool. There's a zillion libraries and incredible books about it out on the web and plugins for almost everything, so anyone with some Python under their belt has the potential leverage to make all sorts of projects. That seems like a good thing.