Re: Guile vs ELisp

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 04.11.2010 00:11, schrieb Dani Moncayo:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm a beginner in Elisp, and have a question (just for curiosity):
> 
> Go to the Emacs Lips Manual (edition 3.0 / Emacs 24.0.50), section
> "1.2 Lisp History". The last paragraph reads like this:
> 
>>    Emacs Lisp is not at all influenced by Scheme; but the GNU project
>> has an implementation of Scheme, called Guile.  We use Guile in all new
>> GNU software that calls for extensibility.
> 
> ...so my question is: If GNU Emacs was to be started from scratch
> today, would Guile be better than ELips as extensibility language?
> 
> Thanks in advance. Dani.
> 
> 
I do not know a project that actually uses guile. Even GNU 
projects do not do so. For example The Gimp uses Script-FU, a language 
derived from Tiny-Scheme. The window manager sawfish uses rep, another 
schemish language.

Regards Stefan