From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:52:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87lh94hde0.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87io4lem98.fsf@petton.fr> <56604A9C.7080508@gmail.com> <20151208130529.GA28682@HAL9000> <1c367763-4ba1-4c65-80d1-be1b365c3b35@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449607968 7297 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2015 20:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 20:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Valentijn , Emacs developers , Drew Adams , John Yates To: Spencer Boucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 08 21:52:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a6PFX-0007wh-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6PFV-0001ei-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6PFI-0001dw-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6PFE-0003He-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:41325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6PFD-0003Ef-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD06F8F201A; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 21:52:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vukLuDcl+y1X; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 21:52:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 978488F2017; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 21:52:08 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.0.50.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195986 Archived-At: On 2015-12-08, at 16:21, Spencer Boucher wro= te: >> At the end of the day, we do need to refer to the language by its >> name, I think, but we could stress that it is a "Python-like" >> language, to connect with what people might be more familiar with. > > Calling elisp "python-like" might be a bit of a stretch :) Well, as Peter Norvig put it, "Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with =C2=ABtraditional=C2=BB syntax" (see http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html). I think Drew meant something along the lines "a stable, dynamically typed language with a bunch of built-in datatypes, a rich library, an (optional) object system and integrated tools like a bytecode compiler, interactive debugger, a docstring conformance checker etc." Regards, --=20 Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University