Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Christian Tanzer]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=) wrote:

> pobrien at orbtech.com (Patrick K. O'Brien) writes:
>
> > Are there translators out there?  I looked and couldn't find any.
>
> Parsing S-Expressions is fairly trivial - they are designed to be
> readily parsable. For a full translator, you need to define the
> language mapping first, i.e. how do you want to represent atoms,
> function names, etc.

I expect the main difficulty to be the difference in scoping
models -- the dynamic scoping of Elisp is probably pretty hard to
simulate in Python without incurring major performance problems. And
that's used by lots of Elisp code, so skipping it is not an option if
you want to have comparable behavior.

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