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I agree, Scheme is much better both CL and Elisp, but it's not worth switching to lose decades of Elisp. Better to just have Elisp run on a better VM.

• pmoriarty 12y ago
  The switch doesn't have to happpen all at once; and, considering how much Elisp would have to be rewritten, it couldn't happen all at once. Rather, I hope the switch is made gradually, and most of all that Elisp fans don't dig their heels in against it, but rather work to make the transition smoother.
  • muuh-gnu 12y ago
    Considering that the push for Guile is not coming from the Emacs community, but from the Guile community in order to promote Guile, I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme. Switching to Scheme will be GNU Emacs's suicide.
    • pmoriarty 12y ago
      Let me ask you this: If Emacs and all of its extension code was completely rewritten in Scheme, what would be the point of sticking with Elisp? And how would using a Scheme-only Emacs be "GNU Emacs's suicide"? What concrete value does Elisp add over Scheme? CL vs Scheme, I could see an (unconvincing to me) argument for, but Elisp? Elisp? Don't get me wrong. I'd much rather use Elisp than most any other non-lispy language. I just don't see anything in it to recommend it over a modern Scheme like Guile. But I'm open to being shown the errors of my ways. What's so great about Elisp? Please enlighten me.
    • davexunit 12y ago
      >I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme. Bullshit.