From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: The Lisp High (was: is Emacs completely written in lisp) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:47:35 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87sl30bvp4.fsf_-_@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <0b863c61-a1fd-43fe-b160-f257f660d416@c29g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <5qg0qsFvs4boU1@mid.individual.net> <8Z6dnWjhbaaEi97anZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <8a9ee940-06d8-4764-b36a-2ebbdc4df872@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195587697 20143 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2007 19:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:41:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 20:41:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuYyR-00087j-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:41:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuYyE-0000TL-42 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:41:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1195584455 9695 132.183.29.121 (20 Nov 2007 18:47:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:47:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tNK7XQHAI7bi+jdZ1NPrw4vnlPU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153938 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49370 Archived-At: rustom writes: >> > Out of curiosity, can you tell me how? just a general overview or some >> > place where I can read, how this is done? >> >> Here is a readable summary: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisp [...] > Last: Dont give up. The high from lisp cannot be easily replicated. What I tell people when they ask me about Scheme: "It's a programming language that brainwashes people into believing it's the best language, and makes it impossible to code in anything else. I love it." I got a wicked Scheme buzz off some namespace manipulation this weekend. I can stop any time I want, but right now I'm doing everything in Scheme and Elisp. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109