[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile?
|
From: |
Sam Steingold |
|
Subject: |
Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile? |
|
Date: |
17 Aug 2002 09:02:18 -0400 |
|
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> * In message <address@hidden>
> * On the subject of "Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile?"
> * Sent on Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:50:27 -0600 (MDT)
> * Honorable Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Guile is the standard extensibility package of the GNU Project, All
> GNU packages that include an interpreter for extensibility are
> supposed to use Guile. It is inconsistent for Emacs not to support
> Guile.
Supporting Guile via compilation into Common Lisp is _much_ easier.
I.e., re-hosting Emacs on CLISP and making CLISP able to load Emacs
Lisp (done already) and Guile (should be very easy).
> It would not make sense to replace Guile with Emacs Lisp in everything
> else.
absolutely!
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux
<http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/>
<http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html>
What was the best thing before sliced bread?