From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What makes elisp fun ? Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <96BC1171-45DA-4415-B2E8-3DD4B51AB78A@gmail.com> <87inkrkxjk.fsf@drachen> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495659418 12306 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2017 20:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 20:56:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 22:56:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdKv-00033o-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdL0-0007QP-QB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 16:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdKY-0007QH-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 16:56:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdKU-0001m7-AG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 16:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48637 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdKU-0001lk-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 16:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDdKL-0002MC-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:dx4oW5M6wAQSMHuSIKRzBK6+Xc8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113164 Archived-At: 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