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Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project


From: Jean-Baptiste Bourgoin
Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:20 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt)

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On May 31, 5:57 am, Bernardo Barros <bernardobar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was reading about this topic on the group homepage. One thing I
>> though was how Emacs is really great because of Emacs Lisp, since it
>> is a real programming language and an text editor at the same time.
>> But maybe one of the reasons that Emacs is not so popular nowadays is
>> that Lisp itself is also not so popular anymore either. Someone told
>> something about less than 1%.
>>
>> I have just checked the Pymacs project [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/
>> PyMacs] and I though to myself: "oh, that's a nice one, I could use
>> Python instead of elisp to extend Emacs, I would like that a lot!".
>> I'm a young guy and I don't work with lisp languages at all except
>> when I use Emacs and Lilypond (a music notation program).
>>
>> But it seems to me that PyMacs is not a mature project yet, I would
>> like to see this as a major version of Emacs. Maybe this is the way
>> for Emacs 24 or 25? :-)
>
> Yeah, i think having multiple language support is a good thing, but i
> think practically that's just not feasible, for emacs being started in
> the 1980s.
>
> Note that the PyMacs guy switched to vi, and wrote a big article about
> it.
>
> here's the pymacs home page:
> http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca/
>
> here's his rant, i think it used to be named something like “why i
> switched to vi”
> http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/notes/Thoughts_on_editors.html
>
> note the date there 2003.
>
>   Xah
>http://xahlee.org/
>
>

The future of Emacs seems to be ... guile 2.0. Guile 2.0 run on a VM who
manage already Elisp (of course) and Javascript in addition to scheme.


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