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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
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covici |
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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible |
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Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:54:50 -0500 |
hmmm, I might disagree about the debugger -- one problem when I have
tried to use it, is that apparently it has problems interpreting
compiled code -- I am not sure if it should, but it makes it hard to
use. I am not sure how well documented it is, seemed pretty sparse to
me. I am glad I have not had to use it too much, emacs has done well
for me for many years.
John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > My only point is that Lisp features really do make Emacs what it is. To
> > point out what Emacs is necessarily means pointing out some of those
> > features (IMO).
>
> I agree. The things that make Emacs great:
>
> 1. Highly consistent syntax.
> 2. Self-documenting.
> 3. Integrated debugger.
> 4. Ability to re-evaluate functions in a running environment.
> (i.e., everything that made Lisp Machines great)
> 5. Natural syntax for scoping resources (`with-temp-buffer ...')
> 6. Large and well documented API
> 7. Stable and mature concepts evolved over decades
> 8. Huge, HUGE community of cargo-cultable examples, for those just learning
>
> --
> John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
> http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
--
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How do
you spend it?
John Covici
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- RE: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), (continued)
- RE: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Drew Adams, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, David Kastrup, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, David Kastrup, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, David Kastrup, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible,
covici <=
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Adrian . B . Robert, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, raman, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/14
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14