Someone in the thread mentions a plan that seemed inevitable at that time to convert GNU emacs to the guile flavor of scheme. Obviously that never happened. Does anybody know the story?
Guile had a bunch of intentions towards being a language-agnostic VM, a decade before that was popular.
RMS has been deathly afraid of losing total control over developer tools -- GCC's whole architecture was purposely designed to frustrate anyone trying to write out-of-tree code that handles/produces any of its internal representations (which is why companies are pouring money into llvm/clang). Imagine the bricks he would shit if emacs was a useful target for external compilers!
