Re: Perl embedding: trial balloon

Sunday, 18 April 1999

        Geoffrey Furnish <furnish(a)actel.com&gt; writes:

...
  > Perl is popular.  Perl is hype.  People who have never heard of
Emacs
  > Lisp but know Perl, will want to use the new capabilities, and then
  > we'll be stuck with supporting Perl.  I don't like that prospect.

 Mmm, well, Elisp is hype too. 
This is the first such statement I've heard in my life.  Most people
consider Elisp obscure, or have plain never heard of it.  Calling it
"hype" definitely gives a new perspective.

...
 The bottom line is, all of these languages have significant
 followings.  I'd like to be better at elisp than I am, but I'd also
 like it if XEmacs were just a little easier to extend when I'm in a
 hurry, which would certainly be facilitated if there were some more
 mainstream ways to program it. 
Arguments like this is what sets me against shipping Perl support.

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