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Message #11 received at 41985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Andrew Goh <andrewgoh95 <at> yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: 41985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41985: ELisp
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:48:41 -0700

tags 41985 + notabug wontfix
close 41985
thanks

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> In article <mailman.211.1592754723.2574.bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> you wrote:
>> Hi GNU Emacs Team,
>
>> I wonder if the GNU Emacs Team had thought of replacing the ELisp
>> scripting language with that from newLisp.?
>
> Hardly.
>
>> I took a look at newLisp documentation and must say its very easy.
>
> But it won't include facilities for manipulating editing things like
> buffers.  It would take a lot of work to replicate these in newLisp.
>
> Also, there's around 1.7 million lines of Emacs Lisp code in the Emacs
> core.  That's a lot of code to have to convert.

It is very unlikely that we will rewrite Emacs in newLisp.

I'm therefore closing this bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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