From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Guile vs ELisp Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:38:40 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87iq0d3lfd.fsf@notengoamigos.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291956132 10568 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 04:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:42:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 05:42:08 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 1PQuo3-0001pm-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:42:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQuQI-0003xO-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:17:34 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1288867120 25766 85.183.18.158 (4 Nov 2010 10:38:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:38:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182198 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:37 -0500 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:77339 Archived-At: Jason Earl 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..