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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
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John Wiegley |
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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:11:30 -0700 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> On second thought, I don't think I understand the idea at all. What does it
> mean "a Lispy language, easy to learn"? Is it a Lisp dialect, or is it C
> with a set of Lisp-like macros preprocessed into C? What exactly are the C
> aspects that we are trying to save the programmer from? And which part(s) of
> the core do we expect to be able to rewrite in this "Lispy" language?
Picture what we currently write in C, but a Lisp syntax, and all the macros we
currently use removed. So, the essence of our C, written like it was Lisp.
If that Lisp can get close enough to Emacs Lisp, so that knowing one means
knowing the other, we've just made it easier for anyone to write what we now
have to write in C.
I can imagine that complex things, like type declarations, would be done with
anti-quoted blocks, or by direct support for inclusion of header files.
John
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, (continued)
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Daniel Colascione, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/15
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/13
- RE: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Drew Adams, 2015/10/15
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/15
- RE: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Drew Adams, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, immerrr again, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/13