What's the deal with GUILE, GCL, and Emacs-lisp?

From: Charles Fox (charlesfox357_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: 27 Feb 2005 10:47:46 -0800

I am new to this, and confused....

So GNU is going to re-implement all its software to use GUILE Schele
as a kinf of 'GNU Visial Basic' macro language.

Does that mean I should give up learning Emacs Lisp and learn Scheme
-- will Emacs eventually also use Scheme instead of Emacs-lip?

And is GUILE a 'real' language, eg. capable of doing fast, big, AI
systems; or is it just a slow scripting language?

Should I stick with GCL lisp for doing real progrmming?

What is 'the' lisp to use these days?

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