From: Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile vs ELisp
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:32:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD2E035.6070205@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=ZUEBpbid2J11_=wo=OpxBge8dqFyzfWYSD3JW@mail.gmail.com>
Am 04.11.2010 00:11, schrieb Dani Moncayo:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm a beginner in Elisp, and have a question (just for curiosity):
>
> Go to the Emacs Lips Manual (edition 3.0 / Emacs 24.0.50), section
> "1.2 Lisp History". The last paragraph reads like this:
>
>> Emacs Lisp is not at all influenced by Scheme; but the GNU project
>> has an implementation of Scheme, called Guile. We use Guile in all new
>> GNU software that calls for extensibility.
>
> ...so my question is: If GNU Emacs was to be started from scratch
> today, would Guile be better than ELips as extensibility language?
>
> Thanks in advance. Dani.
>
>
I do not know a project that actually uses guile. Even GNU
projects do not do so. For example The Gimp uses Script-FU, a language
derived from Tiny-Scheme. The window manager sawfish uses rep, another
schemish language.
Regards Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 23:11 Guile vs ELisp Dani Moncayo
2010-11-04 15:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-11-04 16:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-11-09 14:45 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-11-04 16:32 ` Stefan Husmann [this message]
2010-11-04 19:59 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
[not found] <mailman.4.1288834774.2711.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-11-04 1:52 ` Jason Earl
2010-11-04 10:38 ` Richard Riley
2010-11-04 7:10 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <de03fb13-8efb-495c-9112-36bf1abd1cc4@v20g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
2010-11-05 2:16 ` Elena
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