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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by xyzzyz on Friday December 09, 2011 @01:36PM (#3334896)
Too much useful work is already done in elisp. If emacs maintainers were going to move to CL, they'd have to make sure that nothing breaks, otherwise it would almost surely result in fork.
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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by muuh-gnu on Friday December 09, 2011 @02:32PM (#3335197)
> Too much useful work is already done in elisp.

I'm not contesting that, just saying that it is a pity (from the perspective of the wealth of the overall Lisp ecosystem) that all this valuable work has been done in Elisp and not in Common Lisp. Moving to Guile will probably take several years, and even if it really works some day, it will be just another insular Emacs-only solution, because nobody else is using Guile. It wont benefit the overall Lisp ecosystem in any way.

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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by kroger on Friday December 09, 2011 @01:44PM (#3334950)
Specially when there's an effort to use guile (scheme) in emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by pnathan on Friday December 09, 2011 @04:27PM (#3335701)
I wonder if there'd be a way to create an interop mode, which might look something similar to the way they are handling the lexical vs dynamic scoping.

That way authors could transition from elisp to common lisp.

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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by LukeShu on Saturday December 10, 2011 @10:09AM (#3337676)
There's already an effort to do this using Scheme, it's just not ready for this release.

Is CL really that much better than Scheme?

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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by pnathan on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:58PM (#3338025)
Not from a language-theoretic standpoint.

From a pragmatic standpoint, all standard-conforming Common Lisp code runs on a conformant implementation. Schemes often tend to diverge (and they have 6 different Rn standards). So I think CL is 'better' than Scheme, for that value of better.

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