> I was worried about Scheme becoming the "official" Emacs extension language, which I think is a bad idea. Why is that? I'm a complete novice to Emacs program

> I was worried about Scheme becoming the "official" Emacs extension language, which I think is a bad idea. Why is that? I'm a complete novice to Emacs programming (depsite using it for about a decade), and I'm always bouncing off Elisp's warts (for a quick overview Steve Yegge's post [1] was the most useful to me). For example, the need for progn in a multi-statement "then" clause of if-then-else. I just wish we could have a cleaner alternative. Of course, there's a huge landscape of powerful, working, and well organised Emacs extensions written in Elisp, so for that reason alone I understand the need to keep it around. [1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html