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Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile


From: Sam Steingold
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile
Date: 11 Aug 2002 12:52:35 -0400
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> * In message <address@hidden>
> * On the subject of "Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile"
> * Sent on Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:17:49 -0700 (PDT)
> * Honorable Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >Yes, all such extensions can be done, and there are _several_ different
> >incompatible object systems for Scheme, i.e., Scheme is at the stage
> >where Common Lisp was 20 years ago, when there were several CL object
> >systems.
> 
> I don't expect that the decision is going to be made based on
> popularity, but for what it's worth I agree with Sam.  I hate writing
> Scheme programs because every implementation is incompatible and
> usually incomplete.  On the other hand I've been able to take CL
> programs and run them on a dozen systems.

Precisely!

Okay, RMS is not listening.

Maybe XEmacs maintainers are more receptive to the voice of reason?

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