[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-04-24 14:16, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-(

Honestly, Lisp is so much better than any of those alternatives. Not to 
mention that Lisp have this wonderful idea that there is no difference 
between data and code. Which a lot of other languages have, and which is 
a constant headache.

   Johnny