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Re: Guile in Emacs
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christian.lynbech |
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Re: Guile in Emacs |
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Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:42:55 +0200 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
David> Emacs Lisp is streamlined for editing. Common Lisp has its own focus.
You could say the same of Scheme.
I am also not quite sure I understand how Emacs Lisp as such is
streamlined for editing.
Sure there are a bunch of libraries, for instance for handling buffers,
but I think of that as a library and not really an integral part of the
language. Whatever the solution, we will always have an `current-buffer'
function.
David> For an extension language, it is preferable to have a system where you
David> can read through the manual in one day and basically understand it.
Well, that is not exactly wrong, but I would maintain that you can write
a Common Lisp tutorial that you could read through and understand in a
day as easily as you can for Scheme or the current Emacs Lisp.
Much of what is in the Common Lisp standard has the character of
libraries; you need not understand pathnames or CLOS to get started
writing functions.
Wrt. libraries you will anyway be in for a lifelong journey, adding a
handfull on top of what is already in Emacs will not drastically change
that.
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Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk
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Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.
- address@hidden (Michael A. Petonic)
- Re: Guile in Emacs, (continued)
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- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/17
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Helmut Eller, 2010/04/17
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/17
- Re: Guile in Emacs, John Wiegley, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Helmut Eller, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Tom Tromey, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/14
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