"A few weeks ago, I was talking to some people about the nerdy things I work on, and the nerdy things I like. The conversation inevitably turned to Emacs and Lisp, and someone asked why I liked them so much. There are a lot of reasons, but I think the main one is that it’s such a pioneering and influential language, and most people aren’t aware of it. An astonishing number of language features we take for granted owe their existence to Lisp..."
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Ferk
13 years 19 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago
A GNU OS in Lisp would definitely rock!
The sad thing is that GNOME was originally going to be developed in Scheme (GNU Guile).
At least we still can have sawfish: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
apeiron
13 years 18 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago
How is this related to GNU/Linux or Mac?
This article has nothing to do with GNU/Linux or Macs at all. Where's the relation? I see no reference to GNU, Linux, Apple, or Mac in the article.
can.axis
13 years 18 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
Mac user
It seems to me that the author is a Mac user...