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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:40:31 -0700
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On 10/12/2015 06:38 PM, Alexis wrote:
> 
> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Has anyone ever considered using GNU gcl to translate lisp into (very
>> fast) C?
> 
> Well, a couple of months ago, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 
>    I'm writing a C parser in CL, so that I may read the C sources    of
> CL, and then translate them into maintainable CL.  Then I    will be
> able to compile a CL GNU emacs core, that would be    100% bug-for-bug
> compatible with GNU emacs, and on which you    could run all the .el
> (and even .elc) you'd want.

So then, instead of C, we'll have a C AST represented in CL. Isn't one
custom language enough for Emacs?

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