From: john@ankarstrom.se (John Ankarström)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What makes elisp fun ?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 20:48:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9ucq0m4.fsf@ankarstrom.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw.861sr8g775.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 28 May 2017 20:35:58 +0200")
Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:
> At the universities they sometimes teach just a bit of Lisp
> together with Haskell and perhaps SML or Erlang as part of a
> course in "functional programming". That can very well be done
> but probably it will focus too much on the functional aspects
> to give a fair view of Lisp, with which you can program in any
> style or paradigm.
Right, that's one of the things I like about Lisp. If you want to
go functional, it's a great language for that. If you want to
indulge in some good old imperative programming and just get
things done, it offers that too.
It's because it doesn't lock you into a paradigm that it becomes
such a useful tool.
- John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-28 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 12:28 What makes elisp fun ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-22 21:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-23 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-24 9:13 ` hector
2017-05-24 9:29 ` tomas
2017-05-24 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-26 10:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-05-26 13:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-05-26 14:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-26 14:50 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-26 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-26 21:17 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 18:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-28 18:48 ` John Ankarström [this message]
2017-05-28 22:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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