Re: Emacs, was Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story) (fwd)

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com>]

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> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:58:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Schuyler D. Erle" <sderle@alphaaccess.net>
> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs, was Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story) (fwd)
> 
> > > A little eyeballing, and 2/3 of emacs (by line) is LISP.  It's even
> > > more by bytes.
> 
> LISP. I usually counter the argument that LISP is the One True Language on
> account of its aesthetic simplicity or what have you with the following
> questions:
> 
> (1) Would you like to try writing a CGI script in LISP?
> (2) Which would you rather do, given only the following choices?
> 	(a) Write a Perl interpreter in LISP.
> 	(b) Write a LISP interpreter in Perl.
> 
> For my part, I haven't found anything I wouldn't rather write in Perl.
> 
> Nuf 'ced.
> 
> (Of course, this counter-argument never seems to work, but that's in the
> nature of holy wars. But then I'm preaching to the faithful.)
> 
> SDE
> 
> 

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