From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:50:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <143c6d28-4423-4e43-9fc5-c0fb3340043b@c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <87ljazofkn.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <04eff456-349f-4840-b0f7-d1784f6b7058@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291826380 15650 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:39:40 +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 17:39:33 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 1PQN3E-0005GC-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:39:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQN3D-0003Y3-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:39:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.kpnqwest.it!news.kpnqwest.it.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:50:42 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g8bxEhv5KWefS8dakuTX0qQDcP4= Original-Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.46.181.126 Original-X-Trace: sv3-OtPt8AX/Hg525hRNfo+idJlPQp9z3Rvl8p5gXrqVc5cAZmyjpfO3ZfN0OkLQ30ik3TKWrdpZ/eS6XGJ!wLVdSZLlCFw9ZBvB3Kei93VO/InIukS1Zt54KKbe+15y+BxudnJID3q03ZhhwEE= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178570 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:75629 Archived-At: * 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 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