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Originally Posted by N13L5
I wish the new Lisp version John Graham et al are working on would move beyond the experimental and "in flux" stage already, and continue to make an interpreter that can somehow make use of all the useful Python libraries 
Like he points out himself; Lisp isn't much in use, cause except for command shell scripts, its tough to use for real world stuff, cause there's not much in the way of libraries... I don't know about the interpreter / compiler situation
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I liked Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov's commentary in his commentary on editors on his
Softpanorama website. He talked about macro languages for text editors, and was less than thrilled with Emacs using a dialect of Lisp, because he felt the language ought to have some use
ouside of the editor, and what
other use of Lisp did the majority of Emacs users make?
Eric S. Raymond was going on a while back about what Emacs got wrong, and how much better Python would be for the purpose. When I said "So rewrite Gnu Emacs to use Python instead of Lisp." the response was "Don't tempt me..."
I have to agree. I have Gnu Emacs here, but the only use I made of elisp was years back, learning enough to hack my .emacsrc to properly support the various special keys on the machine I was running it on. I've had no cause to touch it since.
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Dennis