[comp.emacs] Emacs V19 and Scheme

pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) (12/04/90)

In article <HANCHE.90Nov30163110@hufsa.imf.unit.no> hanche@imf.unit.no
(Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:

   In article <JKH.90Nov26131532@bambam.pcs.com> jkh@bambam.pcs.com
   (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: [Warning -- selective quoting ahead]

      To state it more succinctly this time, why not Scheme as Emacs'
      extension language? I know E-Lisp already exists, and works, but it's
      Yet Another Dialect and I'm wondering why we still need go that way
      when a small & optimal lisp now exists.

   I think people think they have waited long enough for V19 as it is.
   Don't let us add another year or two to the wait.  Don't misunderstand
   me, I would love to see an Emacs based on Scheme myself, but I don't
   think it is worth the trouble.

If you want an Emacs in Scheme I suggest that you get the Edwin
sources from the latest MIT CScheme distribution, port them to
standard Scheme (maybe by adding portable code to implement the
necessary CScheme extensions?), and add or port enough code to
duplicate the functionality of GNU Emacs.  Then, if the result has
real advantages (e.g. smaller, faster, cleaner but same size and
speed), we can all consider using it. 

Followups have been directed to comp.emacs, since this thread is not
really about GNU software anymore.
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                                            dan

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