From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Potential Lua implementation for Guile? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:13:45 +0000 Message-ID: <87ljdz25ba.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <1e54fa2e1003081824x58820972jf73183069492e4@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268259294 1088 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2010 22:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: No Itisnt Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 23:14:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1NpUB0-0006yR-12 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:14:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpUAz-0007FE-AM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpUAt-0007EI-L3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40582 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpUAr-0007EA-ST for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpUAq-0007L4-Sn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:43750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpUAq-0007HW-O0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:40 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-182-154-126.range86-182.btcentralplus.com [86.182.154.126]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9993F1F6631; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2351038026; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:13:46 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <1e54fa2e1003081824x58820972jf73183069492e4@mail.gmail.com> (No Itisnt's message of "Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:24:44 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10045 Archived-At: No Itisnt writes: > I want to apply for GSOC this year. Since Guile has recently obtained > a compilation/language framework, I was thinking that an > implementation of the Lua language for Guile, under the auspices of > the GNU Project, would be a good fit. Yes, I think that's a great idea. > Moreover, I think the addition of Lua, similarly to Emacs Lisp, would > put Guile in a better position to subvert existing applications that > use Lua as their scripting language (a lot!). > > Let me know what you think. I think Guile finally seems to be approaching its original dream. Neil