On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> [1] why oh why does the main GNU editor not use the "official > >> extension language for the GNU operating system"?? > > > > Same reason why its keyboard shortcuts are only so-so compatible with > > CUA and/or GNOME: its development was started more than 30 years ago, > > when nobody had ever heard of Guile. > > Note, however, one of this year's Google-Summer-of-Code projects is > integrating guile into Emacs; the idea is to use guile as the > interpreter for Emacs Lisp. At the same time, Scheme will be > available for free. >
That sounds interesting. Personally I would rather see Emacs re-implemented using Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp. The languages are very similar but it is their very similarity that trips me up whenever I try to use Emacs Lisp. OTOH, I don't think I could live without Emacs! Cheers, Bernard. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
