From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs (was: integer overflow) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbp2fwoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org> <3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873a0cyv3r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <1271028837.6164.55.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271075460 19370 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2010 12:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 12 14:30:50 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Imw-0007JB-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Imv-0006cK-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Imm-0006as-PS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55406 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Iml-0006aJ-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Iml-0000F2-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48965) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Imk-0000Ex-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Imk-0002MF-4w; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <1271028837.6164.55.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> (message from Thomas Lord on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:33:57 -0700) 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:123516 Archived-At: When I read about Sun's plan to make TCL the universal scripting language, I decided to oppose that. The plan I chose was to implement Scheme and support other scripting languages by translation into Scheme. Guile is the program I chose to adopt to do this with. That plan is what I am talking about. Whatever history that code had before its adoption for this plan is not what I am talking about.