Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

rustom wrote:
> On Jun 1, 1:40 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> Evans Winner <tho...@unm.edu> writes:
>>> LanX <lanx.p...@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>     No name spaces, no real lexical variables [...]
>>> These are not bugs, they are features.  One uses the right
>>> tool for the job.  It is highly unlikely that the language
>>> of choice for serious hackers working on developing large,
>>> complex systems is going to be the same language chosen for
>>> casual text editor users who want to quickly and simply
>>> customize some element of their editor.  
>> Possibly.  However, if emacs was reprogrammed in Common Lisp, you
>> could have both.  Naive users could be provided with an environment
>> with only dynamic binding and a unique namespace, while sophisticated
>> programmers could use all the features of Common Lisp.  Also, as
>> mentionned in another post, it would be easier to implement other
>> user-friend scripting languages in Common Lisp than in emacs lisp.
>>
> 
> I remember seeing a paper (by a German I think) in which he claimed
> that he could *fully automatically* translate elisp to scheme.  Does
> anyone remember this? [My google foo is not up-to-the-mark...]

It might have been this (out of Freiburg and Tuebingen, 2001):

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/papers/dynamic-scope-analysis.pdf

Anyway, there is menttion of the el2scm project.

Ed