From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:50:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24ohlgw7g.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f2e253d0-a21d-4040-be76-7c2d02789830@q36g2000prg.googlegroups.com
* Xah Lee [2010-06-02 19:05+0200] writes:
> LanX [2010-06-01 01:33+0200] writes:
> «
> I really enjoyed reading this blog on ejacs
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html
> »
>
> On Jun 1, 3:28 am, Helmut Eller <eller.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> «Why didn't he write the Javascript interpreter in Javascript? Or why
> did he write a Javascript interpreter at all?»
>
> Gah. Apparently you haven't spend much time reading the article.
>
> Steve created it because he's creating a javascript mode for emacs,
> with the goal of it being a full IDE beating any other javascript
> IDEs.
>
> That mode eventually became js2-mode. The js interpreter engine was a
> discarded by-product, because he ends up writing another engine. The
> name “ejacs” was attached to it later, and became a separate project,
> currently of little practical use.
So it turned out that writing a JS interpreter that runs inside Emacs is
totally useless. I could have told him that before.
Helmut
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <143c6d28-4423-4e43-9fc5-c0fb3340043b@c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>
2010-05-31 15:44 ` About Emacs Modernisation Project Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <0e994fe3-6dde-449f-879d-6701c7a195a9@e28g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>
2010-05-31 19:41 ` Alessandro Piras
[not found] ` <c41c63c0-b934-442d-8385-1abff6ab9b0b@s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
2010-06-01 0:40 ` Alessandro Piras
2010-06-02 6:07 ` Xah Lee
[not found] ` <87iq63wsvt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>
2010-06-01 0:06 ` LanX
2010-06-01 8:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 11:19 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 6:17 ` Xah Lee
[not found] ` <87ljazofkn.fsf@rapttech.com.au>
2010-05-31 23:33 ` LanX
[not found] ` <87r5krh3e0.fsf@unm.edu>
2010-06-01 8:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 17:34 ` rustom
2010-06-02 12:47 ` B. T. Raven
2010-06-02 17:20 ` rustom
2010-06-01 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-01 23:22 ` LanX
[not found] ` <slrni0b8nm.9k6.bergv@u00.math.uiuc.edu>
2010-06-02 11:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <e73e123d-3f0c-4a6f-bbac-b91fb71bf07d@f14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
2010-06-03 9:26 ` Emulating namespaces Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-03 15:33 ` LanX
2010-06-03 17:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <87mxvegz12.fsf@unm.edu>
2010-06-01 23:36 ` About Emacs Modernisation Project Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 5:58 ` Evans Winner
2010-06-01 10:28 ` Helmut Eller
2010-06-01 11:27 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:29 ` Helmut Eller
2010-06-01 12:55 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 12:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 17:05 ` Xah Lee
2010-06-02 17:50 ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2010-06-04 18:33 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-06-05 2:55 ` Tim X
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