From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency, again Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:47:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477439331 16968 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2016 23:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, toon@iotcl.com, lars@nocrew.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 01:48:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBSI-0001AF-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 01:48:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBSG-0004X7-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBRd-0004X1-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBRd-0001fb-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBRQ-0001c2-Eu; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bzBRO-0003Vz-Tq; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:47:34 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:22:42 +0000) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208812 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 have lots of experience from other programming languages. Emacs isn't > that different (Elisp is mostly Python with a strange syntax), That is not true at all. Lisp and Python are fundamentally different. The basic operations of Lisp are read, eval, and print. They don't exist in Python because its structure has no room for any such thing. -- 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.