.. title: emacs; Lisp
.. slug: 2005-08-22
.. date: 2005-08-22 00:00:00 UTC-05:00
.. tags: old blog
.. category: oldblog
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Monday, 22 August 2005
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emacs, oh wonderful emacs
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While back `Daniel Barlow `__ explained__
why emacs is the best desktop environment he has used. I agree: emacs
is the best desktop environment I've used, too. (Forth, Lisp Machine
and Smalltalk users may be able to say different with reason, but few
others.)
__ https://ww.telent.net/2003/1/14/_updated_for_elisp_syntax_error_13_01_52_gmt
Lisp is small
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These days, a full blow Common Lisp is a relatively small application:
`Starting CLISP to evaluate an expression `__
takes only 2.5 times as many system calls as it takes ls to list a
single file.