GNU bug report logs - #52440
28.0.50; [PATCH] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (sqlite3)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 21:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, patch, wontfix

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 52440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 52440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52440: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
 (sqlite3)
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 10:04:39 -0500
> You cannot usefully separate into different files parts of the Lisp
> interpreter, they are too intertwined.  Might as well stop trying.

Pretty egregious straw-grasping here.

> Anyway, this seems to be about personal stylistic preferences, so any
> further argument is futile.

No, it's C programming 101.  You'll get the hang of it.  I was an even
worse programmer than you when I graduated university.  By the time you
get to my age and experience, you'll be the Vader to my Kenobi.

Not that I fancy myself a jedi in programming, far from it.  But you get
the idea.




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