From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs language Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:37:40 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <87d3vx5cku.fsf@gmail.com> <87bpbcrdk5.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <871vc8dpga.fsf@imladris.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291836375 3349 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:26:15 +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 20:26:09 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 1PQPeS-0000n3-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:26:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPeR-0007rO-Sv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:26:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZrzU61YgTIqnswT2KGyA1vac/00= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179000 comp.emacs:100064 comp.lang.lisp:289252 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:75885 Archived-At: On 2010-06-15 21:13 +0100, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I think Common Lisp would be a great choice but I don't think there is > much hope for it. It seems that Emacs developers want to use Guile > (GNU's own Scheme implementation) instead. Guile aims to support Emacs > Lisp but I believe that in practice it would be a quite much more > backwards-incompatible change than line-move-visual=t. :-) I just read the links you posted. There are some people from guile camp strongly arguing for guile while none of important figures in the common lisp camp does that. There were at one episode discussing re-using the HyperSpec. I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility of common lisp. Leo