Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my!

[David Kastrup]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>> I think it is beneficial to a program like Emacs to have a single
>> extension language.  A single language makes both reuse and debugging
>> simpler.  Multiple languages equals chaos.
>
> I tend to agree. The priority should be to make Emacs Lisp more
> powerful, for example by adding stuff from the CL library to the
> language core.

The cl library is an incredibly complex hack.  It makes debugging and
figuring out things quite harder.

It makes more sense to switch to a system which deals with such
complexity in more straightforward ways.

So I tend to see your wish of "make Emacs Lisp more powerful instead" as
more expensive and painful in the long run.

-- 
David Kastrup