[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 4/21/2023 1:09 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-04-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 4/21/2023 10:51 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>>> Is Lisp still used these days?
>> 
>> In Emacs. Unfortunately. :-(
>> 
>> What a bloody horrible monstrosity of a language. :-(
>> 
>> I wish they had used something else for Emacs. Anything else.
>
> I am sure a lot of people agree.
>
> But what were the alternatives when Emacs Lisp was
> created?
>
> Emacs Basic?
>

That would have been better. :-)

ALGOL/Pascal/etc was also in use by the mid 1970s, so perhaps they could
have created a runtime embedded language based around those general concepts.

But no, Lisp was what they knew, so Lisp is what it was, even in the mid
1980s when GNU Emacs was created and Lisp was way obsolete by that point. :-(

Simon.

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