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bug#41985: ELisp
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#41985: ELisp |
Date: |
21 Jun 2020 17:41:28 -0000 |
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tin/2.4.4-20191224 ("Millburn") (FreeBSD/11.3-RELEASE-p9 (amd64)) |
In article <mailman.211.1592754723.2574.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> Hi GNU Emacs Team,
> I wonder if the GNU Emacs Team had thought of replacing the ELisp
> scripting language with that from newLisp.?
Hardly.
> I took a look at newLisp documentation and must say its very easy.
But it won't include facilities for manipulating editing things like
buffers. It would take a lot of work to replicate these in newLisp.
Also, there's around 1.7 million lines of Emacs Lisp code in the Emacs
core. That's a lot of code to have to convert.
> Anyway, I didn't run the newLisp installer as Windows Defender blocked
> the download from executing. The only place where I will run newLisp
> code is "newLisp in a browser."
Well, there's another reason. You'd likely have less trouble running on
GNU/Linux.
> Regards, Andrew Goh S M
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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