From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lisp Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200709084955.GA1320@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3627"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 10 05:56:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jtk9L-0000pr-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:56:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtk9K-0008G7-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtk8t-0007oe-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtk8s-00064l-Rq; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jtk8o-0006Km-L5; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200709084955.GA1320@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252807 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. ]]] > 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)