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I've played with Lisp a little, and I'm amazed at how many complex things such as Emacs can be built from a few simple axioms.
by ddelony 19y ago
I've played with Lisp a little, and I'm amazed at how many complex things such as Emacs can be built from a few simple axioms.
- tptacek 19y agoA few simple axioms and a whole lot of C code.
- brlewis 19y agoapt-cache show emacs22-el Installed-Size: 13080 The wonders of emacs are embodied for the most part in the most primitive Lisp dialect still in widespread use. Emacs Lisp doesn't even have lexical scoping, and it's still amazing. Not that I have anything against C, when it's used to bootstrap a Lisp implementation, at least.