From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs (was: integer overflow) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbp2fwoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org> <3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873a0cyv3r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268141973 26376 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2010 13:39:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 09 14:39:29 2010 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 1NozIF-0001hw-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:16:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nopz4-00006S-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NopyR-0008JY-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NopyR-0008JJ-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NopyQ-0005Iq-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49496) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NopyP-0005Ig-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NopyP-0000mf-Hc; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:41:53 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:121752 Archived-At: RS> If it only supports something like Emacs Lisp then it is not much of RS> an advance. Guile supports Scheme and Javascript as well as Emacs Lisp. It also supports multithreading, which IMHO is a big deal as well, perhaps more important than bignums. I think the support for multiple languages is the biggest advance. I hope support for other popular extension languages will be implemented eventually -- that was the original goal of Guile.