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Lisp, Python, and other comparisons
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Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Lisp, Python, and other comparisons |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0200 |
From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:55:48 +0200
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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 :)
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