From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:24:17 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4D6BBD34.6050407@mousecar.com> <4D6BD989.9010102@mousecar.com> <87r5apwxad.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <878vwwwp8d.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <878vwvuq3o.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299296429 19826 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2011 03:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 03:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 04:40:25 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 1PviLx-0007WH-7L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PviLw-0006GN-Kq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="+bxBiZT/p0ZLLuDb5H+JCw"; logging-data="25286"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IanOVkV7bHZsqog4wx+N2" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HGu6PLIEWoSAQRb1mLTdMudqZWM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185619 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:79774 Archived-At: In article <878vwvuq3o.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote: > Barry Margolin writes: > > 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. > > MacLisp probably. CL is inspired a lot from MacLisp too. But I've > read that MockLisp was far from being a full lisp (as its name would > imply), and that it was probably the reason why RMS had to write a new > real lisp for his emacs. I think he may have taken much inspiration from Multics Maclisp and the macros used in Multics Emacs. For example, I think that's where save-excursion came from. It was also case-sensitive, unlike PDP-10 MACLISP. I imagine this is the only good thing RMS would admit came out of Multics. He wasn't a big fan of the OS because security was one of its central features. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***