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In the first reply in the thread, Barry Merriman asks a good question: > Doesn't Python essentially provide what RMS wants? Why doesn't GNU just adopt Python a
by gpvos 9y ago
In the first reply in the thread, Barry Merriman asks a good question:
> Doesn't Python essentially provide what RMS wants? Why doesn't GNU just adopt Python as its defacto language?
Does anyone have an answer to this? (I scanned the first dozen or so messages, but did not find one.)
- preek 9y agoRMS actually looked into Python after someone said to him that it's an accetable Lisp. Turns out he didn't concur - as do I. I did some years of professional Python development and it's a very nice language compared to most - but I do prefer Lisp as does RMS. Building an adaptable application container like Emacs in Python would be very hard to do.
- gpvos 9y agoThen they could have added it as the language with the more traditional algebraic syntax.