Using Common Lisp in Emacs

Posted Nov 15, 2023 11:41 UTC (Wed) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Using Common Lisp in Emacs by neggles
Parent article: Using Common Lisp in Emacs

Of course we had to have random unfounded RMS smear from an annonymous commenter who loses nothing.

> the reality of what end-users and other developers actually want to see/use.

"emacs lisp + common lisp" is obviously a bad bad language that emacs has good logical reasons to discourage. This is not an arbitrary RMS opinion.

Using Common Lisp in Emacs

Posted Nov 15, 2023 12:17 UTC (Wed) by neggles (subscriber, #153254) [Link]

I'm not anonymous, and I'm basing "what people want to use" on the pretty significant pushback from other emacs devs described in this very article.

Using Common Lisp in Emacs

Posted Nov 15, 2023 17:39 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

If there's one thing having 20+ years experience in writing software has taught me, it's that very few things are actually obvious.

Using Common Lisp in Emacs

Posted Nov 16, 2023 23:27 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

Ok, I'm not anonymous, you can find my handle. I'm the maintainer of xindy in TeX Live which is written in CL.

I'm programming in Elisp and CL since 40 years. I don't think that "Elisp + CL" is bad.

Especially, I don't like intrusive hyperbole like "bad bad language" without any argument why that is so. Many people with decades of Lisp programming think otherwise.

IOW: Cut down in your quest to defend RMS and start to add something to the technical discussion.