From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Earl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Guile vs ELisp Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:52:06 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87iq0d3lfd.fsf@notengoamigos.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291948791 18223 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:39:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:39:47 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 1PQstf-0006sz-Gf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:39:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQste-0005py-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:39:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8MwVfxN56jk7sawi9E43Xw"; logging-data="21210"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BASKAwKXM/nJYhNuS33r9" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAAlw SFlzAAASmwAAEpsB4JJZDAAAAAl2cEFnAAAAMAAAADAAzu6MVwAAAaFJREFUSMe1VtuxxSAIzIz9 2Iyl2Aj1bBX0k5+LrwjGjJyPy2ROwtGNBJbVCwwwy1UNoOL3f+SBxkj15Lr4NsboN24DWMZxYQNA TjGmjC1gswJiqBbpDeANYMwXBFyAFB5L7ADMBcoSDgAFBSDHR2tA8ABMSB4AawB76pAnILsKx2lm 1VfpgUi3kxrySylRHdmQj40Jva2/jl8EY3Twv/phhsC9nIQR0hnAOUptYsL3RxvAk+YIH2AWsvTH GYBgKn8GaPYm5jNANaCQ8WfAzyH9x0crFfGl9X4QVdg8gEqN2KjBHi6V/iBq6iyAxTqd+Yvupwai VwM9LZkxQ6otihmS6H+mHlK5URwi0UQgWxHoxS5JagBSed7IzJRCallS2pg2QsamcGUFNSHgLZUv augJIUualv1Bv6+yVat1oeMq92s/mBBWQJH7dQX7CnpvWWs/4CazpHlB2RR1BFSzNGdIaTbbLil8 U76BKKU0GztapXP3C78bNYQ6MTQybY8OkIaITf9HPzyHkXE4YXs4mf5VDz+jAepj3RTQ3Ubv0SPy 9AcCrfKh0TBgvgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAxMC0wNC0zMFQyMzo1NDo0My0wNjowMKID BVQAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMTAtMDQtMzBUMjM6NTQ6NDItMDY6MDB1KbZcAAAAAElF TkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:AjFx2kp7R0YBnVztBLIlsg78WAE= sha1:zT7SXCNevy049+H/r5cx+COcebU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182189 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:20 -0500 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:77215 Archived-At: 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.