From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87io4lem98.fsf@petton.fr> <56604A9C.7080508@gmail.com> <20151208130529.GA28682@HAL9000> <1c367763-4ba1-4c65-80d1-be1b365c3b35@default> <87lh94hde0.fsf@mbork.pl> <5e6f1674-3091-4d0e-a12d-4f86becec481@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449725330 15621 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2015 05:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: valentijn@linux.com, john@yates-sheets.org, spencer@spencerboucher.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 06:28:42 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 1a6tmT-0000se-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:28:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39479 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6tmT-0002P3-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6tm3-00025S-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6tm3-0004OO-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6tls-0004E8-HV; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a6tlr-0003QI-Bl; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:28:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <5e6f1674-3091-4d0e-a12d-4f86becec481@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 8 Dec 2015 13:51:32 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:196012 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We don't want to set Lisp up against other languages. > We do want to get across what it offers that benefits > an editor and environment such as Emacs. Yes we do, to some extent. The Emacs web site should say this: Lisp is the most powerful and elegant of programming languages. If you want to see how powerful and elegant a programming language can be, you need to learn Lisp. It will give you standard for measuring other languages. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.