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diff --git a/2020/info/32.md b/2020/info/32.md index afabb47d..cc63fa0b 100644 --- a/2020/info/32.md +++ b/2020/info/32.md @@ -22,31 +22,27 @@ Elisp tools like generic functions, structs, and objects. <!-- from the pad ---> - # Questions - ## Q3: Have you done any other projects using EIEIO and/or defstruct? - -"Right, EBDB is super deep into EIEIO, and was kind of written as a project for learning it, and the new gnus-search library is a more restrained usage. The search engines are defclasses, and much of the code is shared, which works quite well." +Right, EBDB is super deep into EIEIO, and was kind of written as a +project for learning it, and the new gnus-search library is a more +restrained usage. The search engines are defclasses, and much of the +code is shared, which works quite well. -## Q2: Is there may activity on maintenance of gnus today? (and is Lars involved/aware of this work?) - -"Yes, there's still development going on. I don't think Lars is very focused on Gnus right now, but I run all changes by him first. He fixes bugs, but as far as I know, I'm the only one adding features right now, which is a terrifying thought." - +## Q2: Is there may activity on maintenance of Gnus today? (and is Lars involved/aware of this work?) +Yes, there's still development going on. I don't think Lars is very +focused on Gnus right now, but I run all changes by him first. He +fixes bugs, but as far as I know, I'm the only one adding features +right now, which is a terrifying thought. ## Q1: How much of this 90's funny code :) can be replaced and how much will have to stay forever? - -Eventually I think we can get most of it out of there. I was - -happy to be able to replace obarrays-as-hashtables with real - -hashtables, though that was a very painful process - +Eventually I think we can get most of it out of there. I was happy to +be able to replace obarrays-as-hashtables with real hashtables, though +that was a very painful process # Notes - - -Famous last words: "Sometimes the only thing that's worse than not knowing why something doesn't work is not knowing why it does work." +Famous last words: "Sometimes the only thing that's worse than not +knowing why something doesn't work is not knowing why it does work." |