Re: Guile vs ELisp

[Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>]

On Wed, Nov 03 2010, Dani Moncayo wrote:

> 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.

There has been at least one attempt at a Guile-based Emacs (google Guile
Emacs), and fairly recently Andy Wingo posted this message to
emacs-devel.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00665.html

I think that it is at least somewhat likely that a near-future Emacs
might run Guile.[1]

Jason

Footnotes: 
[1] By near-future, I mean in the next 50 or so years,
    perhaps much sooner.