Re: State of the pond

[Bernard Hurley]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:49:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.
> 

True but I use the stump window manager so I have SBCL running anyway. Climacs 
doesn't seem to have progressed since 2008 and is nowhere near a drop-in 
replacement for Emacs.

Anyway maybe this is getting a little far from Lilypond!

Cheers,

Bernard