From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Antoniotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:23:01 -0400 Organization: NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7Vvra.15$aX1.3111@typhoon.nyu.edu> References: Reply-To: marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051626581 31334 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 14:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 16:29:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AW70-000898-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:29:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AW3h-0000lH-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:26:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nyu.edu!typhoon.nyu.edu!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, it Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.165.110.10 Original-X-Trace: typhoon.nyu.edu 1051626179 216.165.110.10 (Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:22:59 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:22:59 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112507 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9004 Johan Bockgård wrote: > From gnu.emacs.help, followup-to set to gnu.emacs.help > > "Daniel R. Anderson" writes: > > > >On emacswiki.org there is a "wish list". Quite a few people want > >emacs to be based on another version of LISP. Out of curiosity, what > >is it that makes elisp inherently bad, or why would people want it > >to be changed? I'll skip the first one. For the second I'd wager that people *know* that Common Lisp is the right answer and people would love to see RMS admit that he messed up royally by promoting Guile :) Cheers -- Marco Antoniotti