F/OS & the blind

[Paul Lussier]

Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> writes:

>> Yes, except of course, the words "simple" and "emacs" should never, 
>> ever appear in the same sentence.....  :)

I guess that completely depends upon your point of view :)

>> The scripting language for emacs scripts is lisp (or a lisp variant?).

It's not a "scripting" language, it's a full-fledged programming
language which can be compiled.  Emacs uses 'elisp', which is dialect
of lisp written specifically to support emacs.  Lisp, as a language,
has been around since 1959, making it the oldest programming language
still in common use today.

>> It should have been Python, but circumstances conspired to prevent
>> that.... :)

Python is good, but it's not good as lisp.  If interested, check out
Paul Graham's site for some lisp history.  Here's a good article
explaining why Lisp is different than all other programming languages:

  http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html

This article also explains what lisp has that python is lacking, why
python is lacking it, and why python will probably never have it :)

(Don't get me wrong, I love python, it's a great language, and makes
some things extremely easy and it's OO architecture is, well, it would
be very wrong to even *mention* perl in this sentence ;)
  
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Seeya,
Paul