Evolution of Emacs Lisp

Compiling Emacs Lisp to Scheme

We present a metacircular compiler written in Scheme that compiles Emacs Lisp to Scheme code. The compiler either emits source text or a Scheme function immediately useable at the prompt of the Scheme implementation running the compiler. This characteristic makes the compiler especially useful in an interactive setting. Thus, our compiler provides a basis for running unchanged Emacs Lisp code i...

Computation Scrapbooks of Emacs Lisp Runtime State

Snapshots of general purpose computation states have found important but limited special purpose uses (e.g. UNIX cores and Smalltalk images). A prototype system is presented for exploring additional uses for computation snapshots in the writing, debugging, testing and documenting of computer programs. These uses center on a Computation Scrapbook, which allows complete copies of program runtime ...

JazzScheme: Evolution of a Lisp-Based Development System

This article introduces JazzScheme, a development system based on extending the Scheme programming language and the Gambit system. JazzScheme includes a module system, hygienic macros, object-oriented programming, a full-featured cross-platform application framework, a sophisticated programmable IDE and a build system that creates executable binaries for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. JazzScheme ...

Khepera-LISP Interface for Allegro Common LISP

Lisp-in-Lisp: High Performance and Portability

Until recently every Lisp implementation has had either a relatively large assembly language core or extensive microcode support. We have been working on a Common Lisp [Steele 1982] for the S-1 Mark IIA super-computer being developed at LLNL, producing an implementation that has high performance, exploits the complex architecture of the S-1, and which is almost entirely written in Lisp [Brooks ...