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Re: Guile in Emacs
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christian.lynbech |
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Re: Guile in Emacs |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:34:08 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
Thomas> If the only serious difference between GNU Emacs and
Thomas> a new Scheme-based GNU Emacs were a change in extension
Thomas> language - then there would be little point in bothering.
Theses points have been made more or less in several places already but
just to reiterate, changing the extension language to a more widely used
language variant, even if everything else stays the same, would have
several benefits:
- faster execution of also emacs lisp code
- shared burden of maintenance for the language platform
- ability to load up (external) libaries written in the new language
- a platform to evolve also the emacs lisp parts into safer/better/faster
- a platform to evolve C parts back into the extension language realm
What kind of future this would lead Emacs into is hard to say but it
would certainly facilitate many great things. I agree with you that, as
on example, being able to move functionality from back into scheme or
elisp or whatever will be a very exiticing thing.
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Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk
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Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.
- address@hidden (Michael A. Petonic)
- Re: Guile in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Guile in Emacs, joakim, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Christian Lynbech, 2010/04/13
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Thomas Lord, 2010/04/13
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Christian Lynbech, 2010/04/13
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Thomas Lord, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Bruce Stephens, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs,
christian.lynbech <=
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/14
- RE: Guile in Emacs, Drew Adams, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Helmut Eller, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- RE: Guile in Emacs, Drew Adams, 2010/04/15