Bernard Hurley <bern...@marcade.biz> writes: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> >> [1] why oh why does the main GNU editor not use the "official >> >> extension language for the GNU operating system"?? >> > >> > Same reason why its keyboard shortcuts are only so-so compatible with >> > CUA and/or GNOME: its development was started more than 30 years ago, >> > when nobody had ever heard of Guile. >> >> Note, however, one of this year's Google-Summer-of-Code projects is >> integrating guile into Emacs; the idea is to use guile as the >> interpreter for Emacs Lisp. At the same time, Scheme will be >> available for free. >> > > That sounds interesting. Personally I would rather see Emacs > re-implemented using Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp.
<URL:http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/> is one such thing, and the web site lists a number of other ports that failed to reach significant mindshare. Common Lisp is far too big to make sense as an extension language. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
