Re: [External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Madhu wrote:

>>> Comprehension of the user's program reaches its greatest
>>> heights for Lisp programs, because the simplicity of Lisp
>>> syntax makes intelligent editing operations easier to
>>> implement, while the complexity of other languages [...]
>>
>> Sorry, but we don't have _any_ of those advantages :)
>
> I believe elisp (and lisp) had those advantages when this
> paper was written. What has chages is now the berated
> complexity of other languages (including syntactic
> elementss) have been dragged into elisp over the last decade
> or two, (some of it through exploiting a notional
> anti-common-lisp sentiment). While the basic sexp structure
> sull seems the same, now to understand the "modern code" you
> have to refer understand and familiarize yourself and read
> documentation of the constructs in the other languages
> before you can understand elisp.

I think this is typical for Lisp, it leads to complexity -
more so than many other languages where you just add one more
line to be executed.

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