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Re: Guile vs ELisp
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Stefan Husmann |
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Re: Guile vs ELisp |
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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:32:53 +0100 |
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Am 04.11.2010 00:11, schrieb Dani Moncayo:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm a beginner in Elisp, and have a question (just for curiosity):
>
> Go to the Emacs Lips Manual (edition 3.0 / Emacs 24.0.50), section
> "1.2 Lisp History". The last paragraph reads like this:
>
>> 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.
>
> ...so my question is: If GNU Emacs was to be started from scratch
> today, would Guile be better than ELips as extensibility language?
>
> Thanks in advance. Dani.
>
>
I do not know a project that actually uses guile. Even GNU
projects do not do so. For example The Gimp uses Script-FU, a language
derived from Tiny-Scheme. The window manager sawfish uses rep, another
schemish language.
Regards Stefan