From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd.moellmann@t-online.de
Subject: Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile?
Date: 17 Aug 2002 09:02:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptwhocyt.fsf@loiso.podval.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208170450.g7H4oRf08568@wijiji.santafe.edu>
> * In message <200208170450.g7H4oRf08568@wijiji.santafe.edu>
> * On the subject of "Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile?"
> * Sent on Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:50:27 -0600 (MDT)
> * Honorable Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Guile is the standard extensibility package of the GNU Project, All
> GNU packages that include an interpreter for extensibility are
> supposed to use Guile. It is inconsistent for Emacs not to support
> Guile.
Supporting Guile via compilation into Common Lisp is _much_ easier.
I.e., re-hosting Emacs on CLISP and making CLISP able to load Emacs
Lisp (done already) and Guile (should be very easy).
> It would not make sense to replace Guile with Emacs Lisp in everything
> else.
absolutely!
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux
<http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/>
<http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html>
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-17 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <86y9b8awuv.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org>
2002-08-16 9:34 ` Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile? Kim F. Storm
2002-08-16 16:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-08-16 22:46 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-08-17 23:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-08-16 16:52 ` D. Goel
2002-08-16 18:02 ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-17 4:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-17 13:02 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2002-08-23 7:02 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m3ptwhocyt.fsf@loiso.podval.org \
--to=sds@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=gerd.moellmann@t-online.de \
--cc=storm@cua.dk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).