Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> "John Wiegley" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
>> A subset of Elisp that doesn't have dynamic binding might well produce
>> code that could be of use to us,
>
> That's what I had in mind all the time. We could aim to the subset of
> Elisp that can be translated to a fast enough target code, while
> remaining superior to C in convenience.
>
> Or a more radical approach: a Lispy language, easy to learn by those who
> already know Elisp, but which can be translated all the way to something
> as performant as the current C code, while being capable of interacting
> with it. This way, whenever someone needs fast code, he would use this
> other dialect instead of writing C, or the slow Elisp (or avoiding the
> task altogether.)
>

Has anyone ever considered using GNU gcl to translate lisp into (very
fast) C?

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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