From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile? Date: 17 Aug 2002 09:02:18 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xk7mrywnt.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208170450.g7H4oRf08568@wijiji.santafe.edu> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029589331 10595 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2002 13:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd.moellmann@t-online.de Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17g3DV-0002ki-00 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:02:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17g3dy-00031L-00 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:29:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17g3EX-00069h-00; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17g3DS-00067a-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17g3DP-00067L-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pool-151-203-42-138.bos.east.verizon.net ([151.203.42.138] helo=loiso.podval.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17g3DN-00066w-00; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from loiso.podval.org (loiso [127.0.0.1]) by loiso.podval.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7HD2Jd01937; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:02:19 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <200208170450.g7H4oRf08568@wijiji.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6600 > * 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 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 What was the best thing before sliced bread?