Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:27:39 +0100
>> 
>> Reviewing the Emacs website, and previous discussions on this list below
>> (admittedly not recent, but still relevant).  It seems important to add
>> some text on Lisp which is not currently there, as per ideas of RMS and
>> Eli summarised below.
>
> Why is this important?

It appeared to be an outstanding documentation item to add to the
website, using the summary text written from RMS.

I personally believe it is important and useful in the context of an
introduction to Emacs such as the website.  For new users, or indeed
new contributors, Emacs Lisp may appear an intriguing choice, and that
summary offers a compelling reason for Lisp.


>> What do people think?
>
> I think it's a relatively minor issue, not worth arguing about.  But
> it looks like we are up for such a discussion anyway...

Right, it may not be an issue at all -- up to you -- only a suggestion for
documentation improvement.

Emacs supports many languages, and on this is getting better thanks to eglot,
tree-sitter etc.

I thought the thread implicitly related to Emacs Lisp.  As the elisp manual says:
"The great power of the Lisp language makes it ideal for
other purposes as well, such as writing editing commands."

I should apologise as my initial thread was in retrospect too short on
context.  It wasn't meant to start a sort of flamewar, sorry it has
caused you to respond to many tangents.