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: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:28:03 +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=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291835790 32613 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:16:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:16:30 +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 20:16:27 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 1PQPV4-00041v-6t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:16:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPV3-0002bZ-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:16:25 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.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: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:28:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uv9yhOrYK1h07V0zUrGnnELW8Ng= Original-Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.46.178.183 Original-X-Trace: sv3-P2mEaimQqpItwI99JKpNHyXK6HmlnWBjWw564cjAsm5K7v7yCR0BZx+e+za+Q0AksLnLueQ0TnLq/7f!BZlnDf6Rp5oiQSgYAFQa8tbDUyrpOHWoeWVbl5jf8/cbi7ZITezHQa7ozEYqfyU= 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:178517 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:75867 Archived-At: * LanX [2010-06-01 01:33+0200] writes: >> My personal feeling is that changing to something else will never happen >> and is the wrong direction to go anyway. > > I really enjoyed reading this blog on ejacs > > http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html > > It highlights the problems in elisp when trying to realize > contemporaneous programming patterns. > > No name spaces, no real lexical variables, slow properties, and so > on. Why didn't he write the Javascript interpreter in Javascript? Or why did he write a Javascript interpreter at all? The only interesting place to run and debug Javascript is inside a browser with complete DOM access anyway. Helmut