Re: Wondering if you guys would like to comment on this

pjhyett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>""So an annoyance that Common Lisp programmers can resolve for
>themselves within five minutes plagues Java programmers for years."
>...which is great, until someone else has to use your code. Have you
>ever tried using someone's highly customized EMACS setup? Maybe

Why should he want to do that? Is he arguing against configurable
software?

>they've made it more like Wordstar, or changed the exit key. Maybe
>their meta is their control key, and their control key is their caps
>lock key. The result is that you not only have to be used to reading

The man's a bit declued.. control/meta/capslock are (on X11)
configured in the X server, via xmodmap etc. What's emacs got
to do with that? [for my convenience, I have made capslock an
additional control key, for example.. should I not be allowed to
do that?]

>someone's algorithms, you have to be used to reading their dialect.
>As such, I have the same rules on LISP programming that I do with perl
>- I hate it unless I wrote it."

One can write weird rubbish in about every language.
I don't really understand what he's arguing for.. removing all
extensibility from Lisp? Or what's he trying to say?

mkb.
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