Re: emacs lisp in javascript?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Fren Zeee <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Thorsten Jolitz
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Is it viable to implement GNU Emacs Lisp in
>>> Javascript?   Has anyone explored the question
>>> and gotten anywhere?
>>
>> The other way around:
>>  Ejacs is a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs, written entirely in Emacs
>>   Lisp.
>> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.de/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html
>
> Is there any advantage to implementing javascript interpreter in a
> language like emacs lisp which is dynamic binding versus clisp or
> scheme which is static binding ?

Quote from Steve Yegge:
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| I had big plans for Ejacs. I was going to make it a full-featured,
| high-performance JavaScript interpreter, with all the Emacs internals
| surfaced as JavaScript native host objects, so you could write Emacs
| customizations using object-oriented programming. 
`----------------------------------------------------------------------

>From reading the cited blog, I would guess that this was more a
personnal project from somebody who loves Emacs and Javascript and
started a project that made him learn much more about both. 

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cheers,
Thorsten