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Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:17:41 -0500

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  > Robustness comes at a price.  You are asking Emacs and its users to
  > pay a heavy price that they don't need to pay, because there are no
  > requirements for Emacs to be as robust as safety-critical software.

That's the crucial point.  With unlimited resources we could make
bugs in Emacs vanishingly unlikely.  But if we put so much resources
into that, we would get nothing else done.  We need to use our users
to find the bugs.  

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Dr Richard Stallman
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