From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my! Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:36 -0400 Message-ID: <874oj3tt7n.fsf@red-bean.com> References: Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271949297 29011 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2010 15:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 17:14:55 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4y7B-0001A4-Vq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:14:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4y7B-0004iT-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O4y76-0004hX-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53200 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4y73-0004g8-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4y72-0005jz-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from osh-net-219-98.onshore.net ([66.146.219.98]:39655 helo=sanpietro.red-bean.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4y71-0005jH-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39145 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O4y6u-00032v-UB; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:14:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:35:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124051 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: >I would humbly submit that you have, over time, restricted the range of >programs that you would write in Elisp, to that set of programs that >Emacs' implementation of Elisp can deal with. What Andy said. >There are many programs that you just can't write in Elisp, linguistic >expressiveness aside: the implementation just isn't fast enough. It >shouldn't be that hard to thread my inbox ;-) What Andy said, again :-).