From: Gene <gene.sullivan@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:17:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce3941d8-e16c-4b39-b9ac-ba7306933247@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ea295ed-010d-476d-b832-9e850a98a609@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 4:15:05 PM UTC-4, edu5...@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Members of Gnu.Emacs.help,
>
> A team of engineers, of which I am part, has decided to write a tiny version of
> Emacs. Well, there are many tiny versions of Emacs around: Microemacs, Zile, jmacs to name a few. However, the idea is to be in keeping with the Emacs Philosophy, and not only providing key-binding for Emacs compatibility. By Emacs philosophy, I mean that the new editor must be customizable through a Lisp dialect.
To wit, Scheme is a lisp dialect and it's both BEEN used as the scripting language of EDWIN as distributed with MIT Scheme, AND the lisp engine of emacs is mutating towards Scheme.
Given how small/tiny a Scheme interpreter CAN be -- check out the dialect used in GIMP -- I can't imagine a picolisp interpreter smaller; and Lua seems both tiny and increasingly popular as a language embedded in apps, games, and even TI calculators.
If one wants the syntactic sugar of Picolisp at the cost of being less tiny then by all means HAVE AT IT.
Personally I see EDWIN, GNU Emacs, and GUILE becoming more interoperable as the future unfolds.
Cheers!
Gene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-22 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-21 20:15 A femtolisp based emacs clone edu500ac
2016-08-22 4:17 ` Gene [this message]
2016-08-22 5:22 ` Rusi
2016-08-22 21:32 ` edu500ac
2016-08-23 1:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2016-08-24 3:52 ` James K. Lowden
2016-08-24 4:35 ` Yuri Khan
2016-08-24 21:38 ` edu500ac
2016-08-25 12:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-26 8:28 ` Michael Albinus
2016-08-26 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-25 21:22 ` Ben Bacarisse
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