From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:54:26 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208110354.g7B3sQA06118@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200207200035.g6K0ZAb27891@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207212015.g6LKF4c00874@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207251807.g6PI75d07615@aztec.santafe.edu> <874renlito.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <200207271853.g6RIre710837@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207310554.g6V5ssc16508@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208022214.g72MELZ01879@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208042326.g74NQAK03418@aztec.santafe.edu> <87y9bfsyfk.fsf@emacswiki.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029038114 24692 127.0.0.1 (11 Aug 2002 03:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 03:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17djov-0006Q9-00 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 05:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17dkCH-0008UP-00 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 06:19:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17djpW-00060x-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17djoD-0005fB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17djoC-0005ex-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17djoB-0005er-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7B3si524983; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:54:44 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7B3sQA06118; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:54:26 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: alex@emacswiki.org In-Reply-To: <87y9bfsyfk.fsf@emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:02:23 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6437 > I am not interested in hosting Emacs on Common Lisp > because that would require adding far too much to it. I do not understand the statement -- what does "it" refer to, and why is there stuff to add -- and what does is added, size or functionality or complexity? I am sorry. My point was that Common Lisp would be an undesirably large addition to Emacs. I have never greatly admired Common Lisp having implemented it once. (Also, Scheme is the standard GNU extensibility language and has been for many years. The decision was made long ago, and I am not interested in reconsidering it.)