Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:23:03 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> ...Talking about leveraging Emacs to preserve GCC's importance is not
> just about the programmers that could/would work on GCC (assuming that
> by "work on GCC" you mean "working on extending GCC"; if not, my
> mistake). Most C/C++ programmers that use Emacs and GCC have neither
> the interest, nor the knowledge, ability or disposition to work on
> GCC. If Emacs/GCC is insufficient for them and they switch to a
> non-free, or less free, toolset, this is a net loss for the GNU
> project, I think.

Another huge advantage of my proposal to use CEDET is that CEDET and
Semantic are Lisp packages, so we should need neither the knowledge
nor the proficiency of GCC hackers to push in the direction we want.
The largest pool of Lisp coding talents are right here.