From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Clough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <1271028837.6164.55.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <1271102739.6067.38.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <8039yz34ka.fsf@tiny.isode.net> <1271173887.6067.53.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <87ljcqqxoc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271244253 27612 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 11:24:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:24:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 13:24:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1O20hU-0003DU-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:24:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O20hU-0005Zy-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O20hL-0005Zk-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52803 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O20hI-0005ZM-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O20hG-0001g7-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.125]:60644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O20hG-0001f7-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:54 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=gKJQ3Gb1PwwcvLAUMhHvsTUlxXKuwkA/GVcTkdHRkTo= c=1 sm=0 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=wN3dDBks/ChO7xvezkoALQ==:17 a=HOmj9U0M4fUUl7Bs0aUA:9 a=PmLKnY236aus-lTWVLoA:7 a=VJDeR2HotGkPmPJJQdR9fyUc3iMA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=wN3dDBks/ChO7xvezkoALQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.70.71.134 Original-Received: from [74.70.71.134] ([74.70.71.134:38030] helo=logrus.localdomain) by hrndva-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 2F/89-16894-7C5A5CB4; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:23:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: (immanuel litzroth's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:55:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123623 Archived-At: It seems I've lost track of this conversation. Is this a purely hypothetical discussion, or is it to be expected that some relatively near future version of Emacs will be Guile-based? For what it's worth, as someone who's used Emacs for years but only got into Lisp a couple of months ago... I can see this as a good thing for people who'd like a more "modern" Lisp with their Emacs (and a consistent, "core" extension language across GNU), but a bad thing for people relying on a large, complex application maintained by a single busy guy. Emacs Lisp supports such a grow-it-as-you-need-it development approach that a lot of stuff out there was built a few lines at a time over months or years. Expecting the author of an application like that to carve out a chunk of time for a complete re-write might be asking too much. Jeff