Re: Guile vs ELisp

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org> writes:

> 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.
>

So Guile based with it being able to use existing eLisp? Sounds too good
to be true..