From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <04eff456-349f-4840-b0f7-d1784f6b7058@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> References: <143c6d28-4423-4e43-9fc5-c0fb3340043b@c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <87ljazofkn.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291835453 30777 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:10:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:10:49 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQPPc-0000wv-AC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:10:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPPb-00085H-FD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:10:47 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.219.221.11 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275348835 16090 127.0.0.1 (31 May 2010 23:33:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=94.219.221.11; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010040118 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178506 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:75859 Archived-At: > My personal feeling is that changing to something else will never happen > and is the wrong direction to go anyway. I really enjoyed reading this blog on ejacs http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html It highlights the problems in elisp when trying to realize contemporaneous programming patterns. No name spaces, no real lexical variables, slow properties, and so on.