Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project

[rustom]

On Jun 1, 1:40 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Evans Winner <tho...@unm.edu> writes:
> > LanX <lanx.p...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> >     No name spaces, no real lexical variables [...]
>
> > These are not bugs, they are features.  One uses the right
> > tool for the job.  It is highly unlikely that the language
> > of choice for serious hackers working on developing large,
> > complex systems is going to be the same language chosen for
> > casual text editor users who want to quickly and simply
> > customize some element of their editor.  
>
> Possibly.  However, if emacs was reprogrammed in Common Lisp, you
> could have both.  Naive users could be provided with an environment
> with only dynamic binding and a unique namespace, while sophisticated
> programmers could use all the features of Common Lisp.  Also, as
> mentionned in another post, it would be easier to implement other
> user-friend scripting languages in Common Lisp than in emacs lisp.
>

I remember seeing a paper (by a German I think) in which he claimed
that he could *fully automatically* translate elisp to scheme.  Does
anyone remember this? [My google foo is not up-to-the-mark...]