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Old 28th June 2012
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I recall discussion on tech@ about a year ago around adding a scripting engine to mg(1) as the thought was this would make it more flexible to individual tastes. tedu mentioned that he was working on implementing a small Scheme interpreter such that a number of Emacs extensions could then be used in mg(1). At the time, this was seen to be useful work -- adding a small Lisp-like interpreter to a small Emacs alternative. Take that, Mr. Stallman.

Now that there appears to be an interpreter available, the question returns as to whether this is the direction the project wants to take, & whether this is the language to use in other candidates for scripting -- systat(1) & top(1) being two possibilities.

So, what we are seeing on tech@ is continued discussion. It doesn't appear to be final, & I don't expect the work to integrate Scheme into mg(1) to commence quite yet.
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