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From: | David Kastrup |
Subject: | Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my! |
Date: | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:49:25 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) |
David Engster <address@hidden> writes: > Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes: >> I think it is beneficial to a program like Emacs to have a single >> extension language. A single language makes both reuse and debugging >> simpler. Multiple languages equals chaos. > > I tend to agree. The priority should be to make Emacs Lisp more > powerful, for example by adding stuff from the CL library to the > language core. The cl library is an incredibly complex hack. It makes debugging and figuring out things quite harder. It makes more sense to switch to a system which deals with such complexity in more straightforward ways. So I tend to see your wish of "make Emacs Lisp more powerful instead" as more expensive and painful in the long run. -- David Kastrup
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