From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 7: 3: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id 1AF4014EBD; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:03:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Cc: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Jonathon McKitrick on Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:19:43 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-Id: <20000126150303.1AF4014EBD@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:03:03 -0800 (PST) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'll be learning intros to both in my Programming Language Concepts course > this semester. The prof says Lisp is inefficient on von Neumann machines, > and that has limited its popularity. But emacs' use of Lisp intrigues me. > It is obviously a very powerful editor, and extensible. I would love to > learn more. And i used to have stonybrook prolog for the amiga. It fit > on 2 880k floppies! emacs lisp, and the editor, are huge. there is a FSF book on programming in emacs lisp. all ( is it really all?) emacs operations are lisp functions, so while it might be inefficient, processors are now fast enough to hide the problem from a human of my reaction time. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message