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Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures

Posted by Unknown on from the this-is-the-future-1999-promised-me dept.

In a posting to the Guile developers list today, it was announced that the Emacs-Lisp compiler for Guile has matured enough to run actual elisp programs. The author included a screencast demoing the new compiler running the Dunnet dungeon crawler. It is still a bit hackish: you need a load file that fakes a few Emacs side functions. In theory, most batch mode programs that don't do buffer manipulation should now work. After a few previous attempts, things could be on track for GNU Emacs 25 based on Guile.

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  1. Glad to see this on Slashdot! by Lemming+Mark · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the kind of article I'm always glad to see on Slashdot; emacs is cool, Lisp is cool, an article on something that's genuinely hardcore nerdy is always good to see! With the Linux on 8-bit micro article also posted today it feels like the nerd coefficient is running high today! Good!

  2. Re:Lisp is... by doom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Eric S Raymond wrote in "How to become a hacker [catb.org]" that Lisp is worth learning [...]

    But don't let that discourage you too much, lisp might be worth learning in any case.