From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Husmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Guile vs ELisp Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:32:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4CD2E035.6070205@t-online.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288888434 22668 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2010 16:33:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:33:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 04 17:33:50 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 1PE2l3-0007X5-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:33:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PE2l0-0004VN-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:33:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38978 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PE2kR-0004Sz-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PE2kL-00068n-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout06.t-online.de ([194.25.134.19]:42244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PE2kL-00067z-3U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd02.aul.t-online.de (fwd02.aul.t-online.de ) by mailout06.t-online.de with smtp id 1PE2kH-0004zv-Ry; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:33:01 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.21] (X6E5LmZvZhrDlUqtDV+KzpKnTRx6CNR-gKxVRxlSQltSFDuM1QqXHBe7P7hq0i5Q+4@[91.4.75.174]) by fwd02.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1PE2kA-05ZeTY0; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:32:54 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Lanikai/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: X-ID: X6E5LmZvZhrDlUqtDV+KzpKnTRx6CNR-gKxVRxlSQltSFDuM1QqXHBe7P7hq0i5Q+4 X-TOI-MSGID: faaa6417-3529-4f17-b5bd-4c40f285c7ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:75293 Archived-At: 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