From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:15:34 +0900 Message-ID: <8763c7lh4p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <5C8D2D84-C4B5-47A2-8392-370D7C3651CF@raeburn.org> <24F68B6C-96CD-4360-86E2-B0B2597B1633@raeburn.org> <87fxbbll61.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251497762 32054 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 22:16:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Ken Raeburn , Emacs development discussions To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 00:15:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mh9jd-0003oi-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:15:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh9jc-0004lC-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh9jW-0004kn-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh9jR-0004k9-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48132 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh9jR-0004k6-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:49699) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mh9jP-0003jS-2F; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.109.79.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.109.79] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Mh9jL-0007VW-3N; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:15:35 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69847DF8D; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:15:34 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87fxbbll61.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:48:22 +0300") Original-Lines: 21 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114794 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> 15 years ago there were grand plans, but... dunno about now. >> It's a different world in many ways. > > AFAIK, Guile and Scheme as a whole still flourish these days, There are a huge number of scheme implementations now; even thinking just about scheme, is guile still competitive? > and the only serious contender is Clojure that could integrate > with Emacs the same way as it does with Java. Why? There are tons of random little languages around now, some very popular (i.e., javascript), many not so much. Clojure is not scheme, so why is it any better than those? [Compatibility with the java runtime is important for some people, but AFAIK, not for Emacs!] -Miles -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.