On May 6, 12:57 am, Didier Verna <did...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
=C2=ABEmacs Lisp is probably the worst Lisp dialect ever. You shouldn't
try
to learn Lisp from Emacs Lisp...=C2=BB
Dear Didier,
i started to read comp.lang.lisp since 1998 or 1999. I don't actually
read it that much, but usually in periodic bursts, perhaps few times a
year, few weeks per bout, i'd come in and read a lot, sometimes post
too.
Thru the years, i have come to know quite a few regulars. For example,
Erik Naggum, Kent Pitman, Kenny, Rainer, at least 3 Christophers, Tims
Bradshaw, 2 Pascals, Mark Tarver, Brian Harvey, William Clinger, Dorai
Sitaram, Richard Fateman, Duane Rettig, Richard Gabriel, David
Lamkins, Barry Margolin, john harrop, Coby Beck, Joe Marshall, Nils
Goesche... and many more (won't be bothering to put full effort to
make a listful here... )
Some have come and gone, as is the ways of newsgroup and life. Not
that i love them all. Some i read, some i swear off, many i have
exchanged missives. In general, it was fun. I wish them well. When
next time i have nothing to do i shall write a brief of Who's Who of
comp.lang.lisp, detailing each's deeds, persona, trivia. Certainly, it
can function as a bible of who knows what, who's more fluffy, who's
fun, who's serious, who's got nothing to do all day, who's man of few
words.
however, you seem to have crawled out of the woodwork into my
awareness today. May i ask, your credential please?
As a way of introduction of myself, perhaps i can show you this essay
of mine:
=E2=80=A2 The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
Functional Notations
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
Regarding your contemplation and regurgitation on the issues of
modernization of emacs lisp, and or emacs vs xemacs, please you
peruse:
=E2=80=A2 Modernization of Emacs Lisp
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_of_elisp.html
=E2=80=A2 My Experience of Emacs vs Xemacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_vs_xemacs.html
Regarding your patronizing concern and officious advice of learning
Common Lisp, you might want to be acquainted with the fact i have no
interest in learning Common Lisp whatsoever.
Thank you.
Xah
xah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://xahlee.org/
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