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<h4 class="subsection" id="The-Emacs-Thesis-1"><span>9.1.1 The Emacs Thesis<a class="copiable-link" href="#The-Emacs-Thesis-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
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<p>The story of Guile is the story of bringing the development experience
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of Emacs to the mass of programs on a GNU system.
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<p>Emacs, when it was first created in its GNU form in 1984, was a new
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take on the problem of “how to make a program”. The Emacs thesis is
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that it is delightful to create composite programs based on an
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orthogonal kernel written in a low-level language together with a
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powerful, high-level extension language.
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<p>Extension languages foster extensible programs, programs which adapt
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readily to different users and to changing times. Proof of this can be
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seen in Emacs’ current and continued existence, spanning more than a
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quarter-century.
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<p>Besides providing for modification of a program by others, extension
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languages are good for <em class="emph">intension</em> as well. Programs built in
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“the Emacs way” are pleasurable and easy for their authors to flesh
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out with the features that they need.
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<p>After the Emacs experience was appreciated more widely, a number of
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hackers started to consider how to spread this experience to the rest
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of the GNU system. It was clear that the easiest way to Emacsify a
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program would be to embed a shared language implementation into it.
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