From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What makes elisp fun ?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw.86fufugej4.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87inkrkxjk.fsf@drachen
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> And you can do all this in very cool ways,
> because you can do it with a Lisp!
> For example, I recently discovered that you
> can do very cool things with streams (aka
> delayed lists) (they are not built in, but
> hey, you have a programmable programming
> language, so they have been added with very
> few lines Elisp). Elisp makes it possible to
> invent very cool stuff in very cool ways, and
> other people may want use your work.
> Elisp let's you be very creative.
Yes, the interesting thing is, this advanced
and genial code-as-data-and-data-as-code and
the circular lispness of Emacs, what it amounts
to is the possibility to do really simple
things fast and to be able to enjoy them
immediately. To write a project in C is like
creating a masterpiece and then you put it
somewhere where it takes the least space.
Write a defun in Elisp and it is like crafting
a new tool and hanging it on a hook screw.
Interesting thing is the new tool seems to have
much more enjoyment to it than the masterpiece.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-24 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 12:28 What makes elisp fun ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-22 21:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-23 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-24 9:13 ` hector
2017-05-24 9:29 ` tomas
2017-05-24 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-05-26 10:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-05-26 13:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-05-26 14:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-26 14:50 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-26 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-26 21:17 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 18:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-28 18:48 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 22:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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