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I recently posted a longer message on this subject to comp.lang.lisp, but
it went over like a lead balloon.

To state it more succinctly this time, why not Scheme as Emacs'
extension language? I know E-Lisp already exists, and works, but it's
Yet Another Dialect and I'm wondering why we still need go that way
when a small & optimal lisp now exists. Something like "Elk" would
provide a good starting point, and it already works well in the X [+
Athena, HP and Motif widgets] environment. Existing E-Lisp code could
probably be converted fairly easily and automatically, so I don't see
that such an upgrade would require chucking out everything that's gone
before, either. Finally, a number of good books on programming in
Scheme already exist, so we wouldn't need to redocument the wheel.
People teaching Scheme could just drop people directly into Emacs,
no need to deal with an inferior lisp.

Am I missing some crucial reason why this wouldn't work? Since V19
is going to be such a major departure anyway, why not go for the
whole enchilada?

Hmmmm. "Schemacs.." Naw, too cute..

					Jordan