Re: combining cond and let, to replace pcase.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de,  rms@gnu.org,  sbaugh@janestreet.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:32:25 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> But to the full truth also belongs that Richard has stopped programming
> >> completely in 2008
> >
> > 'git log --author="rms@gnu.org" --pretty=format:"%an%x09%ad%x09%s"'
> > begs to differ, FWIW.
> 
> I was remembering some interview I read on the Internet, which I can't
> find anymore. Anyway, https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html seems
> to say some similar:
> 
>   My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around
>   1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am
>   too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming
>   projects. As a result, I have not had time or occasion to learn newer
>   languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Lua, Go, Scala, Rust, and so
>   on. Therefore, I don't have an opinion about them as languages.

"...stopped doing programming PROJECTS" (emphasis mine).  That's not
the same as "stopped programming completely".  Yours truly, for
example, didn't do any programming project whatsoever.

> >> and that he doesn't seem to be very familiar with current Elisp
> >
> > ?? How is "current ELisp" different from 2008-vintage ELisp?
> 
> CLOS, generalized variables, pcase, apparently, I don't know.

We all are only starting to get to know these.