From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: A bright new Org-mode clone project Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:05:36 -0600 Message-ID: <87y6h756yn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxPi3-0001sg-I5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:05:43 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47291 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxPi2-0001sS-GP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:05:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxPi0-0004kc-Rr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:05:42 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:58533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxPi0-0004kV-Mx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:05:40 -0400 Received: by pwi2 with SMTP id 2so1672894pwi.0 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:05:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> (Julien Barnier's message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:14 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Julien Barnier Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Julien Barnier writes: [...] > Why restart from scratch ? Because I think that org-mode should be > easier to install and run on different OSes. That's why I'm going to > rewrite it in C#/Mono There are some very good reasons to avoid Mono [1]. If I could recommend another language; Clojure [2] is a lisp (which would make elisp translation easier), and it runs on the JVM making it very portable. -- Eric Footnotes: [1] http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono [2] http://clojure.org/