Sv: Christmas wish: Literate Elisp

[arthur miller]

🙂 👍

I have certainly no access to a spaceship 🙁. Unfortunately! If

anyone is friends with Elon and can borough one I would

certainly love to test my patch to control a spaceship with it!

Jokes aside, I have seen those threads myself and have read

about Boeings misstakes already. I am also aware about Ariane

5 and Xenobia (which I dived last year) and so on.

Yes Tim, Stefan is great guy here, I completely agree with you,

I have also been watching this list for years, even if I never

post here (I did it once before), as well as Eli Z, RMS

and lots of other here. I value their opinion a lot, and I value

everybody else's constructive input, such as yours.

When it comes to experimenting, that was exactly what I did.

I came with idea and I hacked it to see if it is possible. I never

suggested it was finnished patch to be included in a final

product.  I didn't even suggest I would be the one to implement

it, I am not an Emacs dev and I certainly have not much

knowledge about what and how they do. Anyway patch is

simple and there for experimentation, anyone can build

a side copy of Emacs and test this if they are curious. It didn't

blow up my computer, and while I can't promise, I certainly do

hope it won't blow up other peoples computers either, but be

careful! 🙂.

Anyway, if it is gonna be an Elisp solution or C or whatever

language or none solution at all, is left as a homework for

interested developer(s). 

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Ämne: Re: Christmas wish: Literate Elisp

 

Tim Cross <address@hidden> writes:

> It is only when you do something more complex that weaknesses become
> evident.

> On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 15:24, arthur miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  I have no idea if literate programmign is very good or not.I certainly
>  don't do it much.

>  I am not sure myself if this is somethign very usefull or just a cool
>  gimmick. I personally can see some nice use cases,

>  I am very conservative myself when it comes to making changes, what
>  is not broken should not be repaired. I am also very pragmatic. I
>  don't do changes just for changes sake, I do it only if it does
>  something useful.

On Reddit¹, UselessCodeMonkey mentions two of the best development
teams at writing software, rated five stars.  Learnings from their
practices is worth the while to apply if they're not proprietary and
offlimits.

Footnotes:
¹  https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/edavxw/boeing_starliner_suffers_offnominal_insertion/

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