Re: State of the pond

[David Kastrup]

Bernard Hurley <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> 
>> >> [1] why oh why does the main GNU editor not use the "official
>> >> extension language for the GNU operating system"??
>> > 
>> > Same reason why its keyboard shortcuts are only so-so compatible with
>> > CUA and/or GNOME: its development was started more than 30 years ago,
>> > when nobody had ever heard of Guile.
>> 
>> Note, however, one of this year's Google-Summer-of-Code projects is
>> integrating guile into Emacs; the idea is to use guile as the
>> interpreter for Emacs Lisp.  At the same time, Scheme will be
>> available for free.
>> 
>
> That sounds interesting.  Personally I would rather see Emacs
> re-implemented using Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp.

<URL:http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/> is one such thing, and the
web site lists a number of other ports that failed to reach significant
mindshare.

Common Lisp is far too big to make sense as an extension language.

-- 
David Kastrup