From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L <van@scratch.space> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Elisp slow? Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 23:14:46 +1000 Message-ID: <m2sgtmtprt.fsf@scratch.space> References: <20190502075617.GA18331@tuxteam.de> <874l6d3ylg.fsf@mbork.pl> <20190502131827.GA28987@tuxteam.de> <83k1f8q39o.fsf@gnu.org> <87woj8bqho.fsf@telefonica.net> <83tvecocvv.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgtwboot.fsf@telefonica.net> <83muk4obfd.fsf@gnu.org> <20190502214006.4fdsinp7u5xuqvdv@Ergus> <B5B338F0-7316-4721-A461-7F9AC7DD24ED@icloud.com> <20190503004416.xfuzzucflp6bxpuz@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="45462"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 10 15:15:36 2019 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1hP5N9-000Bc6-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 15:15:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1hP5N8-0005Kb-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 09:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>) id 1hP5Mp-0005IU-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 09:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>) id 1hP5Mo-0008Ij-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 09:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56098 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>) id 1hP5Mn-0008HR-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 09:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>) id 1hP5Ml-000B7H-EP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 15:15:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:KD3seTzdWoemrRaGweZrx3fWCTg= 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 <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120285 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/120285> Ergus writes: > Actually I think that these days will be easier to find new C/C++ > developers for emacs than Lisp developers. Lisp and Scheme are > beautiful, but they require a different way of thinking and a lot of > time (own experience, I am just starting with it.) One reason why I > can't convince my friends to use Emacs is actually how Lisp scares them > ((())()'()). Alice wasn't afraid of the cat in Wonderland. -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "The iPhone was a really great invention." - Elon Musk