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: Casting as wide a net as possible Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bn9yt79m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449817785 21122 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2015 07:09:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: john@yates-sheets.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 08:09:36 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 1a7Hpf-0002mn-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7Hpe-0004RM-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7Hpa-0004O5-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpZ-00010v-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpW-0000y3-BG; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpV-0008TM-A4; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bn9yt79m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:48:05 +0100) 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:196086 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. ]]] > Lisp does not have a program syntax. Its data structures have a fairly > primitive read syntax, and you write down your parse trees in that > syntax. > That's what makes people hate reading Lisp code We Lispers consider this simple syntax one of Lisp's great strengths. Of course, there are some who disagree. But that's not the viewpoint the Emacs web pages should take. They should take a _favorable_ stance towards this aspect of Lisp, to encourage others to see the beauty in it. People who disagree will have to state their views somewhere else. -- 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.