Re: Lisp, Python, and other comparisons

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org> [2024-08-05 19:21]:
> From: 	Emanuel Berg
> Subject: 	Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other
> Date: 	Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:55:48 +0200
> User-agent: 	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
> 
> Jeremy Bryant wrote:
> 
> > Lisp is the most powerful and elegant of programming
> > languages. If you want to see how powerful and elegant
> > a programming language can be, you need to learn Lisp.
> > It will give you standard for measuring other languages.
> 
> Ah, I don't know, that kind of boasting. Powerful and elegant
> are both immeasurable things, well, maybe in electrical
> engineering one can measure it.
> 
> > Calling Emacs Lisp "python-like" is derogatory to Emacs
> > Lisp. Python has some of the characteristics that make Lisp
> > superior, but not all of them.
> 
> Okay, then everyone should know this is a controversial thing
> to say. No one, or very few, would recommend Emacs Lisp as an
> alternative to Python 2024.

Choice of programming language is very personal, no matter their
technicalities or superiority. Users of Lisp talk about it in positive
manner, just as users of Python like it. Technical comparisons are
probably available online. I cannot chose programming language any
more by looking into the non-biased comparison. I have switched
everything to Emacs Lisp because it provides me fastest way of getting
things done. That does not mean that Emacs Lisp is fastest Lisp, but
it does give me fastest way to yield with products.

By using Emacs and Lisp, we manage here a lot of documents and people,
processes, accounting, reports, sales, too many things. Same can be
done with any programming language. Just that personally I have it
fastest with Emacs. The integration with Emacs is such an advantage.

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