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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my!
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:49:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyr587a2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2zl0x5f54.fsf@imac-c2.pc.gwdg.de

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>> I think it is beneficial to a program like Emacs to have a single
>> extension language.  A single language makes both reuse and debugging
>> simpler.  Multiple languages equals chaos.
>
> I tend to agree. The priority should be to make Emacs Lisp more
> powerful, for example by adding stuff from the CL library to the
> language core.

The cl library is an incredibly complex hack.  It makes debugging and
figuring out things quite harder.

It makes more sense to switch to a system which deals with such
complexity in more straightforward ways.

So I tend to see your wish of "make Emacs Lisp more powerful instead" as
more expensive and painful in the long run.

-- 
David Kastrup





  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-21  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14 20:18 guile and emacs and elisp, oh my! Andy Wingo
2010-04-15  8:38 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15  8:53 ` joakim
2010-04-15 17:34   ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-15 23:54   ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16  6:48     ` joakim
2010-04-16 17:05     ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16 17:16       ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16 18:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-20 22:36 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-21  7:37   ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-21  9:27   ` David Engster
2010-04-21  9:49     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-04-21 11:04       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-21 11:58       ` David Engster
2010-04-21 12:22         ` David Kastrup
2010-04-21 16:43   ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-22  9:35   ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-22 15:14     ` Karl Fogel
2010-04-25 19:36       ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-23  2:00     ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-23  8:28       ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-23  9:17         ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-23 10:19         ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-23 11:28           ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-23 11:31             ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-23 13:10               ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-23 22:43         ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-24 11:05           ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-25  0:02             ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-25 16:54           ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-25 17:11             ` Andy Wingo

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