> Emacs can be great - to some people. The "You have to use Emacs to program in Lisp" meme is not great. You don't have to use GNU Emacs to write Lisp code. I

> Emacs can be great - to some people. The "You have to use Emacs to program in Lisp" meme is not great. You don't have to use GNU Emacs to write Lisp code. It just happens that a popular Editor written in Lisp and extensible in Lisp is somehow the natural choice for Lisp developers.