From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:20:22 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87vdg09ls9.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> References: <87hbrrrl3c.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261424593 19952 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2009 19:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:43:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 20:43:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NMo9M-0007Vb-SF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NMo9M-0006uh-FT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:42:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:20U9UwLhHDu/DxihZ/vj8eDicP4= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1261423222 news.xs4all.nl 22918 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:23659 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175709 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70784 Archived-At: Sam Steingold writes: >> I already use 'emacs -batch' for scripting where no user input is used, >> but I would like to use it also for interactive scripting. Until now I >> did not find any usable information about this. Anybody using Emacs for >> interactive scripts? > > I use clisp for all scripting, interactive and not. > Common Lisp is more powerful than Emacs Lisp and clisp is faster than > emacs. I have been experimenting with clisp. But I think that Emacs Lisp does a pretty good job. I translated a script I wrote in Emacs Lisp to CL. The Emacs Lisp version needed 51 seconds on a certain data set. When using clisp with the converted code, clisp needs 79 seconds. That is more as 50% longer. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof