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Re: Emacs and Guile status (was Re: Guile is a great idea, but where's t
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Tim Johnson |
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Re: Emacs and Guile status (was Re: Guile is a great idea, but where's the community?) |
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Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:36:00 -0900 |
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* Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> [040101 14:14]:
>
> There was a bit of push-back from some of the Emacs developers, too.
> Some "Guile compatibility might be nice, but no way are we going to
> even consider replacing the working Lisp engine" (something I'm merely
> hoping to defer any decisions or arguments on for a while), some "what
> a waste of effort, nobody cares about Guile or Scheme" type attitudes,
> "don't fix what ain't broke", etc. Others, including RMS, do seem to
> want at least the Guile compatibility. (Well, unless things have
> changed in the past year or so.)
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
My observations aren't backed by direct experience, since I am just
beginning to learn to use xemacs, elisp, and especially scheme/guile.
However, what I have observed and been told, is that the fracture
between the GNU Emacs and Xemacs community has been in part paved over
by those who are trying to address differences in implementation,
and (hopefully) learn from each other's implementation.
I'm glad to see that RMS is favorable about this, that must be the
biggest hurdle. I'm quoting below from /elisp_4.html#SEC7 of the GNU
Emacs Lisp Reference:
" Emacs Lisp is not at all influenced by Scheme; but the GNU project has
an implementation of Scheme, called Guile. We use Guile in all new GNU
software that calls for extensibility.
"
That's RMS speaking, I presume.
tim
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