Re: scheme - my opinion
At 20:12 14/07/98 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
One of the advantages of the small Scheme engine is that the engine
itself is more likely IMO to remain separately-maintainable than a
large CL engine which will probably (IMO, again) need many small
XEmacs-specific changes as time goes on.
This for me is one of main reasons why scheme is preferrable IMHO.
If we cannot use a separately maintained engine (i.e. not maintained for
XEmacs purposes) then I don't see that the grief would be worth it.
Language-wise I don't care. I dislike all lisp dialects - although I
appreciate the need in something like (X)Emacs. I think the focus should be
speed and maintainability, eveything else is irrelevant IMHO.
flame on.....
andy.
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