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Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
38 points by mqt on Nov 17, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


Surely he could have picked a better name. "Yegge ejacs in your browser."


He explains the name choice by saying "A commenter named Andrew Barry suggested that I should not call it Ejacs, and the name stuck."


"Yegge ejacs in your browser."

Ejacs has nothing to do with browsers.


Ejacs has something to do with Javascript, which has something to do with browsers.


True, but I think the purpose of Ejacs is so you can script emacs with javascript instead of elisp. People always make the mistake of tying javascript to browsers which is one of the reasons javascript bears the title "The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language."


I thought the title was "The World's Most Misunderstood Webbrowser Language."


His comparison of EmacsLisp and Javascript is pretty helpful (scroll down for a while).


Thank you for pointing that out. He had lost me long before that part of the post.


http://github.com/bard/mozrepl/wikis/home is a cool little project I've been watching on github; it to provides emacs integration, now it's just a matter of learning emacs. ;_; Here's a neat screencast of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78HRi-J2ek




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