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: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200709084955.GA1320@tuxteam.de> <87mu48hv8c.fsf@gmail.com> 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="21936"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mingde \(Matthew\) Zeng" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 11 04:18:51 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 1ju56J-0005dQ-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 04:18:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47298 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ju56I-0006R9-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ju55a-0005pw-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ju55Z-0003N8-AX; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ju55Y-0001gr-6n; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mu48hv8c.fsf@gmail.com> (matthewzmd@gmail.com) 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:252852 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. ]]] > So, why did you love Lisp in the first place? ;-) Programs are data, so programs can operate on data. Data types are general and fundamentally different in their properties. Simple syntax. That is what I recall now. -- 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)