Re: Guile vs ELisp

[Joe D]

On Nov 4, 1:52 am, Jason Earl <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03 2010, Dani Moncayo wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There has been at least one attempt at a Guile-based Emacs (google Guile
> Emacs), and fairly recently Andy Wingo posted this message to
> emacs-devel.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00665.html
>
> I think that it is at least somewhat likely that a near-future Emacs
> might run Guile.[1]
>
> Jason
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] By near-future, I mean in the next 50 or so years,
>     perhaps much sooner.

Probably much sooner[1], the latest 1.9.x version of guile has elisp
support. I'd say we can expect to see a guile-based emacs when guile
2.0 comes out.

Footnotes:
[1] By much sooner I mean Emacs 24 or 25, though at the rate the GNU
Emacs crowd make releases it could easily be 50 years.