Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project

[Helmut Eller]

* LanX [2010-06-01 01:33+0200] writes:

>> My personal feeling is that changing to something else will never happen
>> and is the wrong direction to go anyway.
>
> I really enjoyed reading this blog on ejacs
>
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html
>
> It highlights the problems in elisp when trying to realize
> contemporaneous programming patterns.
>
> No name spaces, no real lexical variables, slow properties, and so
> on.

Why didn't he write the Javascript interpreter in Javascript?  Or why
did he write a Javascript interpreter at all?  The only interesting
place to run and debug Javascript is inside a browser with complete DOM
access anyway.

Helmut