From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:06:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87io4lem98.fsf@petton.fr> <56604A9C.7080508@gmail.com> <20151208130529.GA28682@HAL9000> <1c367763-4ba1-4c65-80d1-be1b365c3b35@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449641255 4905 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2015 06:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 06:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: valentijn@linux.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, john@yates-sheets.org To: Spencer Boucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 07:07:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a6XuM-0007cV-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:07:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6XuL-0006UN-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:07:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6Xu8-0006Tx-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6Xu7-0007mF-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6Xtk-0007UU-Vk; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:06:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a6Xtk-0006s2-4x; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:06:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Spencer Boucher on Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:21:25 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195991 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > At the end of the day, we do need to refer to the language by its > > name, I think, but we could stress that it is a "Python-like" > > language, to connect with what people might be more familiar with. > Calling elisp "python-like" might be a bit of a stretch :) Calling Emacs Lisp "python-like" is derogatory to Emacs Lisp. Python has some of the characteristics that make Lisp superior, but not all of them. Lisp is the most elegant and powerful programming language. That is what we should say. In Lisp, programs are structured data and it is easy to write other Lisp programs to operate on them. Programmers that don't know Lisp do not realize what is missing in other prograamming languages. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.