XEmacs lisp engine

[Jerry James]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "dvl" == Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>     dvl>         Is there a chance that XEmacs will have a real lisp
>     dvl> engine instead of elisp in a (how distant ?) future ?
>
> Technically, yes.  Mike is certainly capable, there are probably
> others, including a lot of X?Emacs users who don't generally hang out
> here.  But politically, things are split three ways: GNU Emacs will
> probably go Guile, Mike---our resident Lispish implementer---likes
> Scheme, and most of the people with practical interest seem to want
> Common Lisp.

Eiffel!  No, ML!  Wait, Haskell!

Actually, I've been thinking about this myself recently, but from a
slightly broader perspective.  What I've been wondering is, if I were to
to chuck everything and start over, which extension language would I
choose today, and why?

The answer to that question would lead to something that is not XEmacs,
though, but a competitor of both Emacs and XEmacs.
-- 
Jerry "I survived the Language Wars" James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/