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Andy Piper writes:

>> > If we're doing that, we should again give serious thought to
>> > replacing the Lisp engine entirely by something more modern.  Scheme
>> > is definitely the right direction.  I have serious doubts that Guile
>> > is.

> Has anyone considered that Guile could be the last straw in trying to 
> maintain compatibility between The-Editor-Formerly-Known-as-FSGnuEmacs
> and XEmacs?

Yes.  We've pretty much already given up compatibility at the
C source level.  So long as we can maintain the source code, and have
compatibility at the lisp level, I don't think it matters.

> If Emacs starts to support Guile then XEmacs will have to in order
> to maintain compatibility, but by the sounds of it is not
> necessarily something we want to do.

If we follow Michael Sperber's suggestions we can put this decision
off with little or no impact.
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