From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:editor-people
Newsgroups: fa.editor-p
Title: Extension languages
Article-I.D.: ucb.1798
Posted: Thu Aug 19 09:10:02 1982
Received: Sat Aug 21 04:53:14 1982

>From WUTS@USC-ECLC Thu Aug 19 00:44:47 1982
I have been using Emacs for a while now and really like its extensibility.
I have also written and read my share of Teco code, but still do not feel
comfortable with it.  I have heard of Lisp based Emacs, but I'm not sure
that Lisp is much less obscure that Teco.  The point of this all is that I
may be writing an editor for an IBM 4341 and am considering making the
extension language something Pascal-like.  I thinking about making the top
level a Pascal interpreter with the obvious extensions to make editing
possible.  I.e. add real string types and/or buffer types, etc.  Does
something like this exist somewhere?  Are there any Emacs-like editors with
a reasonable extension language?   Am I in weeds or does this sound like
a reasonable idea?
				Maurice Wuts

[Editor's note:  presumably, the Pascal-like dialect would also include
dynamic binding of procedures to procedure names/incocations.   JQJ]