From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: print out all members of a list, v.1.0 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:09:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4D6BBD34.6050407@mousecar.com> <4D6BD989.9010102@mousecar.com><87r5apwxad.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com><878vwwwp8d.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299211811 32389 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 04:10:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:10:11 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Barry Margolin'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 05:10:07 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvML8-0004fv-Ln for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:10:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvML7-0007CO-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvMKj-0007Ab-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvMKi-0006kU-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:35474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvMKi-0006ji-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p2449Z2k008631 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:09:36 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p243DPoq016136; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:09:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt008.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1057065251299211744; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:09:04 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.50.152) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:09:04 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcvaFX01nWDN4REMSx6ptmBzxNG96QAC+gpw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4D7065FF.0045,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 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:79763 Archived-At: > Emacs Lisp is mostly a reimplementation of MockLisp, the dialect that > was used in Gosling Emacs, which was the original inspiration for GNU > Emacs. It's also very much like MACLISP, the dialect that > RMS had been using for over a decade. > > So he didn't design his own language, he was basically sticking with > what he knew and liked. Hm. Not to disagree too much, but on one point in particular: MockLisp was not in any sense a dialect of Lisp - it was not Lisp at all. It only had some of the appearance of Lisp (parenthesized expressions), none of the behavior.