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Re:Guile Emacs Todo by muuh-gnu on Sunday December 07, 2014 @05:48PM (#8713910)
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.
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Re:Guile Emacs Todo by pmoriarty on Sunday December 07, 2014 @06:04PM (#8713971)
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.

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Re:Guile Emacs Todo by davexunit on Sunday December 07, 2014 @06:37PM (#8714090)
>I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme.

Bullshit.

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