Re: Emacs with Guile

[Friedrich Dominicus <Friedrich dot Dominicus at inka dot de>]

Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying embedding Guile in Emacs.  This is not Guile-based Emacs,
> but rather Emacs with Guile.  That is, Emacs now has both Lisp and
> Scheme interpreters independently; programmers can write their code
> either in Emacs Lisp or in Guile Scheme, or even in both.  My patch
> provides some means to exchange objects between Lisp and Scheme.


I do think, that I would like to see GUILE as extension language for
Emacs. Just some points come to my mind. 

Guile seems to be a fast moving target, features come and go. And it has
not stabilized yet. I would think that using a more stable Lisp-Version
may be a better option. Of course Common Lisp comes to my mind relativly
quick. I guess CL is much more stabilized and a lot of things are in
place which are lacking in Guile. 

Can someone give me a hint why one will like taking Guile then?

I'm in now way against Guile, just it seemed that Guile and other
Schemes are inventing what was in Common Lisp before. Why do you think
that is necessary? 

Ok I can imagine some points, like better information hiding etc. but a
lot of discussion seems to me as if all things should be re-developed. I
just wonder why?

I guess this has been discussed before so pointers may be still around.

Regards
Friedrich