From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:02:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d1uenn4h.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa45f69a-b8df-46f8-8fda-4735dc34e4dc@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:56:31 -0800 (PST)")
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>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> My only point is that Lisp features really do make Emacs what it is. To
> point out what Emacs is necessarily means pointing out some of those
> features (IMO).
I agree. The things that make Emacs great:
1. Highly consistent syntax.
2. Self-documenting.
3. Integrated debugger.
4. Ability to re-evaluate functions in a running environment.
(i.e., everything that made Lisp Machines great)
5. Natural syntax for scoping resources (`with-temp-buffer ...')
6. Large and well documented API
7. Stable and mature concepts evolved over decades
8. Huge, HUGE community of cargo-cultable examples, for those just learning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 16:46 Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) John Yates
2015-12-10 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-10 19:02 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-12-10 19:07 ` Casting as wide a net as possible Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:19 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 20:50 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 7:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-10 19:54 ` covici
2015-12-10 21:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-14 13:05 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2015-12-14 16:21 ` raman
2015-12-14 18:21 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-11 7:08 ` Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 16:14 ` Casting as wide a net as possible raman
2015-12-14 14:41 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 15:01 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-14 17:20 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 17:59 ` Random832
2015-12-14 18:19 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-15 18:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-15 18:54 ` Random832
2015-12-15 19:03 ` Random832
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[not found] ` <<fa45f69a-b8df-46f8-8fda-4735dc34e4dc@default>
[not found] ` <<m2d1uenn4h.fsf@newartisans.com>
[not found] ` <<83a8pi9l6o.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-10 19:15 ` Drew Adams
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