For the last few years elisp has been bugging me more and more. Basically, ever since I saw how easy life is with Ruby, I've been annoyed at how hard it is wit

For the last few years elisp has been bugging me more and more. Basically, ever since I saw how easy life is with Ruby, I've been annoyed at how hard it is with elisp. If I had six free months, I'd love to do yet-another-rewrite-of-Emacs, this time in Ruby, with the obvious scripting language, and rewriting all of the 100,000 function calls to be method calls on objects (make-buffer-local, etc. scream out to be replaced with concepts that are less than 30 years old...)