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From: dankg@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.emacs,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Why Lisp? (Was:  Re: Remember how great editors used to be?)
Keywords: elisp, emacs, lisp
Message-ID: <1990May30.052145.15392@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 05:21:45 GMT
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In article <13831@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) said:
>
>Yes, the original EMACS was a set of TECO macros. But no, non-TECO versions
>of EMACS did not start with ports to micros. The earliest ones were
>written in LISP. James Gosling then did an EMACS in C, now sold by
>UniPress. And then Richard Stallman, who did the original EMACS,
>wrote GNU EMACS. See:
>

	Now I have a question:  Why did Richard Stallman chose lisp out of
others?  Why wasn't it C or anything?  A lot of script|macros on other
applications are more C|pascal-like language.  Shell script is so, tmw is so,
and a lot more.
	I found elisp very powerful and elisp alone is complete computer 
language.  But I personally don't like LISP--I hate bunch of ()'s.  And it
does gabage collection like hell when large elisp program is invoked, such as
gnus.  It could've been tighter if external commands are written in C and
the editor loads the objects (can it be done without linking?  Macintosh
can just by loading it as resource file.  Or maybe invoke it as different
session but it would be not a good idea).

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