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From: Christian Lynbech <christian@defun.dk>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:22:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fx2z6ttx.fsf@defun.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271185000.6067.70.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> (Thomas Lord's message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:56:40 -0700")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net> writes:

>> Wouldn't it be about as good (and probably less work), to give up on the
>> guile idea and evolve emacs lisp (with Miles's lexical-bind changes, and
>> (one hopes) multithreading, and maybe other things)?

Thomas> I dunno.  Maybe.  I'd guess that, no, that's not a 
Thomas> good strategy.   Four reasons come quickly to mind: ...

Wouldn't a reasonable alternative to using a scheme implementation be to
use a Common Lisp ditto? And wouldn't that be a much closer fit
semantically to the current Emacs Lisp dialect?

I kind of hear you suggesting ditching all of the existing Emacs Lisp in
favour of starting over from scratch with scheme. 

While it will be easy to list examples of existing libraries few will
miss, emacs killer features such as gnus or org-mode still represent
significant investments that are not easily reproduced from scratch.


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Christian Lynbech       | christian #\@ defun #\. dk
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Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.
                                        - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)





  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2010-02-23  5:31   ` Next pretest, and branching plans Jason Rumney
2010-02-23 18:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-23 21:12       ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-24  6:04     ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-24 13:34       ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-24 15:05         ` Davis Herring
2010-02-24 15:18           ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-24 14:05       ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-25 14:26         ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-26 18:03           ` manuals [was Re: Next pretest, and branching plans] Glenn Morris
2010-02-27  2:32             ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-27 16:52         ` Next pretest, and branching plans Johan Bockgård
2010-03-03  3:52           ` Glenn Morris
2010-03-05  0:31             ` Johan Bockgård
2010-03-05 19:50               ` integer overflow [was Re: Next pretest, and branching plans] Glenn Morris
2010-03-05 22:35                 ` integer overflow Stefan Monnier
2010-03-06  2:55                   ` Glenn Morris
2010-03-06  3:11                     ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-06  7:03                       ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-06 15:45                         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-06 16:23                           ` Davis Herring
2010-03-06 16:33                           ` Drew Adams
2010-03-07  7:52                             ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-07 16:06                               ` David Kastrup
2010-03-07 17:18                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-07 17:42                                   ` David Kastrup
2010-03-08  4:49                                     ` Jay Belanger
2010-03-08  8:04                                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-08 14:41                                   ` Guile in Emacs (was: integer overflow) Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-08 17:32                                     ` Guile in Emacs Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-08 18:42                                     ` Guile in Emacs (was: integer overflow) Chad Brown
2010-03-09  7:07                                       ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-09 16:22                                         ` Guile in Emacs Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-10  8:07                                           ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-10 13:58                                             ` David Kastrup
2010-03-09  3:19                                     ` Guile in Emacs (was: integer overflow) Richard Stallman
2010-04-11 23:33                                       ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-12 12:30                                         ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-12 20:05                                           ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-13 12:44                                             ` Guile in Emacs Bruce Stephens
2010-04-13 15:51                                               ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-13 16:07                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 18:56                                                   ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-13 19:22                                                     ` Christian Lynbech [this message]
2010-04-14 10:14                                                   ` Bruce Stephens
2010-04-14 14:10                                                   ` joakim
2010-04-13 19:13                                                 ` Christian Lynbech
2010-04-14  1:47                                                   ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-14  3:33                                                     ` Christian Lynbech
2010-04-14 23:33                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-14  5:02                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-14  6:45                                                     ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 19:07                                                       ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-14 19:34                                                         ` Bruce Stephens
2010-04-14 20:09                                                         ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2010-04-15  7:34                                                         ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 23:33                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-15  3:52                                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-04-15  6:01                                                           ` David Kastrup
2010-04-15  6:54                                                             ` Drew Adams
2010-04-15 11:59                                                               ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-15 12:49                                                                 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15 13:54                                                                   ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-15 14:03                                                                     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-15 16:13                                                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-04-16 13:48                                                                       ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-16 14:03                                                                         ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-16 14:25                                                                           ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-16 14:25                                                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-04-16 14:39                                                                           ` David Kastrup
2010-04-16 14:40                                                                           ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-16  8:27                                                                     ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-17  4:41                                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-19  7:52                                                                         ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-16 22:29                                                                     ` Emacs Info manuals (was: Guile in Emacs) Juri Linkov
2010-04-15 16:11                                                                 ` Guile in Emacs Drew Adams
2010-04-15  7:21                                                             ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15  7:36                                                               ` David Kastrup
2010-04-15  8:34                                                                 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15  9:06                                                                   ` David Kastrup
2010-04-15  9:45                                                                     ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-15 10:39                                                                     ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15 18:47                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-15 22:42                                                             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-04-15 22:50                                                               ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-04-17  4:40                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-15 23:02                                                             ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-17  4:40                                                               ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-17  6:46                                                                 ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-17 19:55                                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-14 13:30                                                     ` John Wiegley
2010-04-14 14:18                                                       ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-14 15:40                                                       ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-14  7:51                                                   ` David Kastrup
2010-04-14  8:42                                                     ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14  9:55                                                     ` immanuel litzroth
2010-04-14 10:28                                                       ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 11:25                                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-14 12:26                                                           ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 16:49                                                             ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-14 18:29                                                               ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-14 20:02                                                                 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-14 11:23                                                       ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-14 13:11                                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-14 13:11                                                       ` Stephen Eilert
2010-04-14 13:49                                                         ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-14 15:47                                                     ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-14 16:41                                                       ` Drew Adams
2010-04-14 20:10                                                         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-15 10:38                                                       ` Leo
2010-03-06 19:04                           ` integer overflow Helmut Eller
2010-03-06 21:26                             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-07  7:51                           ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-07 19:05                       ` Johan Bockgård
2010-03-06 20:35                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-13  3:10     ` Next pretest, and branching plans Christoph
2010-03-13  7:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-13 14:54         ` Christoph
2010-03-13 18:30       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-13 19:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-14  2:38         ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-14  2:50           ` Christoph
2010-03-14  3:07             ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-14 17:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-17  0:29               ` Christoph
2010-03-17  4:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-17 12:44                   ` Jason Rumney

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