Re: who needs es..?

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>]

| es could be more like
| Dylan.  If emacs could be recoded in es I'd be halfway to the sort of lispm-ish
| environment I'll use in heaven.  

In that case, why not just use scheme?  There are scheme compilers that
can do some pretty spiffy stuff.  Sun has a tool which, from published
descriptions, sounds like my idea of a perl-killer (unfortunately they
use it only internally.)   MIT scheme comes with an emacs-like editor
called edwin.  With Apple behind it, maybe Dylan will take off.
There's a number of good ideas out there, if only they would reach
critical mass: Es is a part of a desirable trend.

@inproceedings{esh,
author={John R. Rose and Hans Muller},
title={Integrating the {S}cheme and {C} languages},
affilliation={Sun Pro},
email={jrose@eng.sun.com, hmuller@eng.sun.com},
month=jun,
year=1992,
booktitle={1992 ACM conference on lisp and functional programing,
                San Francisco, June 22-24, 1992},
isbn={0-89791-481-3},
acm-order-no={552920},
note={also published in LISP Pointers, volume V, number 1, jan-mar 1992},
annotate={Describes {\it esh}.}
}