From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <143c6d28-4423-4e43-9fc5-c0fb3340043b@c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <87ljazofkn.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <04eff456-349f-4840-b0f7-d1784f6b7058@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <87r5krh3e0.fsf@unm.edu> <87wrujuowq.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291825434 10862 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:23:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 17:23:50 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 1PQMo0-000437-Rs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:23:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMo0-0003ez-69 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:23:48 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n20g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.11.144 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275413678 4836 127.0.0.1 (1 Jun 2010 17:34:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n20g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.11.144; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178538 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:75603 Archived-At: On Jun 1, 1:40=A0pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Evans Winner writes: > > LanX writes: > > > =A0 =A0 No name spaces, no real lexical variables [...] > > > These are not bugs, they are features. =A0One uses the right > > tool for the job. =A0It 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. =A0 > > Possibly. =A0However, if emacs was reprogrammed in Common Lisp, you > could have both. =A0Naive 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. =A0Also, 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...]