>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]