From: Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org>
To: dimech@gmx.com
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Subject: Lisp, Python, and other comparisons
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-88ce5294-ce3e-4a65-884a-6ec02a316051-1722874781778@3c-app-mailcom-bs04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-ce6eeb46-c899-458e-bf74-0dbfee2b16af-1722864357116@3c-app-mailcom-bs04>
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.
It will sounds like we are a bunch of fanatics boasting from
our own echo chamber were, inside it, we all are fantastic and
high on Lisp.
Lisp's superiority is a myth.
To me it is more like a drug :)
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2024-08-05 13:25 Lisp, Python, and other comparisons Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2024-08-05 16:19 ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists [this message]
2024-08-05 16:37 ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2024-08-05 19:21 ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2024-08-05 21:26 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2024-08-06 7:32 ` Jean Louis
2024-08-06 11:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2024-08-07 14:13 ` Jean Louis
2024-08-08 14:21 ` Eduardo Ochs
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