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Article #7050Re: Use scheme || nothing
From: Mark Friedman
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 19:36
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 19:36
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In article <39ojut$r8n@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: :If someone feels more comfortable with python than lisp, would it be :so bad to allow him to use python to customize his editor, while stil :taking advantage of the packages written in emacs lisp and other :supported languages? That would be fine. But we haven't got that, because there's no API, just an SPI. See other post. Applications provide APIs. Extension languages use those APIs. For example an editor might include a fill-paragraph function as part of its' API and the extension language might invoke that functionality. I suppose that an extension language does have a small API (e.g. eval). I assume the GEL will provide that. What I mention in another posting is that what we need is an architecture for exposing API's to extension languages. Then you could easily pick and choose the language of your choice without the silly translating that people are discussing. -Mark -- Mark Friedman NASA-Ames Research Center MS 269-2 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 vmail: (415) 604-0573 email: bobo@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-10 00:32:49 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!usenet From: bobo@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov (Mark Friedman) Subject: Re: Use scheme || nothing In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of 8 Nov 1994 19:35:57 GMT Message-ID: <BOBO.94Nov9113615@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov> Lines: 32 Sender: usenet@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov (usenet@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov) Nntp-Posting-Host: avogadro.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: bobo@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Ames Information Sciences References: <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <LIBERTE.94Nov2143656@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> <398vo8$ari@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <ABRAHAM.94Nov3000250@micro.iesd.auc.dk> <39ojut$r8n@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 19:36:15 GMT