From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding c/c++ scripting
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:38:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lh7cmeax.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1aN9sX-00007v-IV@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:54:09 -0500")
>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The strategy I had in mind for supporting many scripting languages was to
> convert other languages to Scheme and then have applications such as Emacs
> implement Scheme.
I think this will be more work than it is worth. It's not just the languages
themselves that are valuable; it the vast sea of libraries that Python and
Ruby give one access to, many of which make FFI calls into C libraries.
Converting all of that into Scheme in a way that provably retains the same
semantics is a task beyond anyone, I'd think.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-23 4:20 Adding c/c++ scripting jonathan maharaj
2016-01-23 8:33 ` Tom
2016-01-24 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 17:38 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-01-24 1:23 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-24 5:35 ` Tom
2016-01-25 8:46 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-26 17:59 ` Vibhav Pant
2016-01-25 1:44 ` Richard Stallman
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