From: Emanuel Berg Subject: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:55:48 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
Jeremy Bryant wrote: > Lisp is the most powerful and elegant of programming > languages. If you want to see how powerful and elegant > a programming language can be, you need to learn Lisp. > It will give you standard for measuring other languages. Ah, I don't know, that kind of boasting. Powerful and elegant are both immeasurable things, well, maybe in electrical engineering one can measure it. > 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. Okay, then everyone should know this is a controversial thing to say. No one, or very few, would recommend Emacs Lisp as an alternative to Python 2024. It will sounds like we are a bunch of fanatics boasting from our own echo chamber were, inside it, we all are fantastic and high on Lisp. Lisp's superiority is a myth. To me it is more like a drug :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
