Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/21/15:42:39
At 09:10 PM 7/21/98 +0200, you wrote:
>[For the record: this mail didn't go to Eli, it went to the whole
>DJGPP newsgroup/mailinglist. You've just reached Eli and another
>2000 or more readers :-| ]
Somethings wrong here. All I did was send TO: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il with
CC:djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>The words 'compiler' and 'Lisp' don't really work together. Make that
>'ELisp interpreter' (and a bytecode compiler, which just another word
>for a lisp code compressor, IMHO), and it's true.
>
>> And that one can write a program in ELISP and you would call this a
>> "macro"--is this true?
>
>Yes. Your _emacs file, and all the *.el/*.elc files you'll see in your
>emacs/lisp directory are all ELisp programs, or "macros" (the name
>doesn't really matter).
>100% correct, I'd say. Emacs' Lisp interpreter is not the only one,
>but it's maybe the most wide-spread of all, on DOS.
>
>> Where is the elisp compiler--is it emacs itself?
>
>The ELisp interpreter is not Emacs, nor the other way round. But the
>interpreter is the very heart of Emacs. Originally the name 'Emacs'
>meant 'Editor MACroS', and that's exactly what it is: a (*huge*) set
>of (byte-compiled) ELisp macros, plus a few highly optimized functions
>written in C to speed it up, and there you are: an editor, and *much*
>more as well (a file maintenance utility, an IDE, whatever).
>
>--
>Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
>Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
Thank your for your information.
I am very impressed with what we have here.
Regards,
Ralph
Ralph Proctor
Coral Gables, Florida
ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net
For one shining moment
we had Steve Wozniak
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