From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jtk8o-0006Km-L5@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200709084955.GA1320@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de)
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> Most probably for historical reasons. The time GNU was born, Lisp
> Machines [5] were just the sexiest things around, and, although
> proprietary, they embodied one of the core ideas of GNU, that is
> that you can reach into every nook and cranny of your system at
> any time and change it, ideally while it's running, and see the
> effects immediately. You, the user, are at the same time the system
> administrator and the programmer. You are the boss.
I was on the team that developed the Lisp Machine operating system,
but that is not why I love Lisp. It's the other way around: I did
that because I love Lisp.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 0:58 Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-09 8:31 ` Lisp Eric S Fraga
2020-07-09 9:04 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:55 ` (Correction: Re: Lisp) tomas
2020-07-10 3:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-07-10 4:03 ` Lisp Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-07-10 7:15 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 2:17 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 6:48 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 15:25 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 16:47 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 17:27 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 19:11 ` Lisp Yuri Khan
2020-07-11 2:18 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 16:51 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-10 10:31 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-12 2:03 ` Lisp 황병희
2020-07-12 19:09 ` Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-10 13:22 ` Lisp Arthur Miller
2020-07-10 15:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-10 5:39 ` Lisp Jean Louis
2020-07-11 2:21 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
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