From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where is Emacs Lisp taught ? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:01:57 +0200 Message-ID: <868t2lsvdm.fsf@zoho.com> References: <5B8BFDC9-A07B-48FE-8C97-1BB0B84E5577@gmail.com> <865zxruycx.fsf@zoho.com> <875zxr7zke.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540494045 30323 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2018 19:00:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:00:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 21:00:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFks4-0007nP-Vx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:00:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFku8-0006No-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFktX-0006NS-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFktT-0007hI-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33700 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFktT-0007gS-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFkrJ-0006nj-8s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:59:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:amjiIjLYC1WjFncayYTtqAsTgIo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118403 Archived-At: Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > Elisp is often to be considered a bad > language By whom? Elisp is not considered a bad language. It is just another Lisp dialect. I wouldn't recommend it for an industrial style project - Common Lisp, rather - but for Emacs purposes it is great and not that different at all from many other Lisps that are around. The reason there are so many Lisps is that it is so easy to do, just the REPL and you have it. Not that there is anything wrong with all the other dialects already there. Basically it is all just Lisp. And a note on university education. There aren't really courses on specific languages anymore, if there ever was (?). The courses have names that denotes different themes or aspects of computers/computing, and then you do stuff with tools and languages to fit the purpose. So one course is called "Imperative and OO Programming", and then you do C (imperative) and C++ (OO); another course is "Database Management" and you do SQL; another is AI and *there* you might do Lisp again (I forgot about that when I only mentioned functional programming); with "Operating Systems" you do C again, maybe even some assembler language, and bash; and so on and so forth. So even if you don't find the word "Lisp" anywhere doesn't mean it isn't taught anywhere/-longer. There is hope :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573