From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Iverson Subject: Re: [babel] Future of Org-babel? Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 12:00:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4BE2F5B3.2080306@ccbr.umn.edu> References: <87pr193i7o.fsf@columbia.edu> <877hnhkrcl.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OA4RO-0007E9-S8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:51 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40601 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OA4RJ-00077E-Dx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA4RD-000640-VE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 Received: from walleye.ccbr.umn.edu ([128.101.116.11]:1818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA4RD-00063g-Pf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877hnhkrcl.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > My pie-in-the-sky extension of this dream would be to have Org-babel > firmly ground in some virtual machine (maybe Guile's if Emacs is ported > to Guile), in such a way that the byte-code of the VM becomes the lowest > common denominator of all Org-babel languages. This would allow for > seamless integration of languages which compile to run on the VM, and > for all other languages this would provide a great speed/efficiency > boost over Emacs Lisp. I should disclaim that without having given this > much serious though I could be missing some critical road blocks. Regardless, the technology will have to be called ".ORG". :)