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: What makes elisp fun ? Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 22:53:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <96BC1171-45DA-4415-B2E8-3DD4B51AB78A@gmail.com> <8760gng1o2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495832115 22210 195.159.176.226 (26 May 2017 20:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 20:55:15 +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 Fri May 26 22:55:11 2017 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 1dEMGM-0005dC-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 22:55:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEMGR-0006GV-DE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 16:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEMEp-0005UQ-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 16:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEMEl-0000Bn-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 16:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45011 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEMEl-0000Ah-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 16:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEMEb-0003Gf-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 22:53:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:+hsgPlMwNRNVsNoD8VYXMyD9eaU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:113186 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > This is a trick question: the reason elisp is > fun is because it's the Emacs > extension language. Are you sure? I can't even imagine having to do C or an OO language for what I do in Elisp. How it would ever work is another issue. But I can even less imagine it be as much fun as Lisp. Lisp is just a more relaxed language and for programming which is so intense and focused it is an awesome quality. > Others have mentioned the "coding playground" > aspect of Emacs. As you write code, you have > this enormous sandbox to play in, a sandbox > where there's room for anything to happen, > and there's a spot to put your drink down, > to boot. Yes. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573