10 problems with Elisp, part 10

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2024 at 7:44 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg" <incal@dataswamp.org>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10
>
> Abraham S.A.H." via "Emacs development discussions. wrote:
> 
> >> Yes, Python is incomparable to Emacs Lisp and would
> >> probably win quite even against the collective Lisp world,
> >> I'm afraid.
> >
> > Wins only in being popular.
> 
> I didn't say that. You know why? Because I didn't mean it.
> 
> > But should we consider Python as a technically
> > better language?
> 
> It doesn't take much experience to do cool things fast
> in Python, it is a fact.

I have been involved it large python projects that today I do 
not touch even if they have some value to me.

But I work on lisp everyday.  With frustration or without, the lisp
code gets read and written.   

> In Lisp, _no one_ does that, almost.
> 
> > Of course it has lessons to be learnt and advantages to be
> > studied and adopted.  But should one try to make Elisp more
> > like JS or PHP or Python just because they have more
> > programmers?  Isn't it because of some other industrial
> > causes that they are popular?
> 
> No comments, I haven't said any of what you say so I don't
> need to answer it, either.
> 
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