[Conkeror] Lisp for conkeror?

John J Foerch jjfoerch at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 5 16:04:06 PST 2008


Evans Winner <thorne at timbral.net> writes:
> This might be stupid, but I was thinking, I believe it is
> possible to write a simple scheme or lisp interpreter in
> JavaScript[1].  Not knowing anything about JavaScript, and
> being a refugee from the Emacs world I would love to be able
> to write (at least simple) conkeror customizations in
> something more familiar to me (i.e., more lispy).  Is this
> realistic or reasonable or whatever?  Anyone already doing
> this?
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/jsscheme
> http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/jscm/scm.js.txt
> http://www.joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html

To me, this would be a curious novelty and nothing more.  We're not
trying to emulate emacs, and Javascript is both a very lispy language,
and very easy to learn.  Why add an extra layer of translation and
complexity?  My two cents.

--John



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