help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on sta


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup]
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:02 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> Of course it is possible if it is possible in Elisp. If
> it is possible in one way, it is possible in another
> way, that does the same. That Lisp is for everything -
> imperative, functional, data markup, meta
> programming... - this is what makes Lisp *great*. This
> "side effect"-free hysteria of Haskell etc. is an
> artistic/aesthetic construction, and it has little to
> do with reality.

You can argue that this is true of everything beyond the lambda
calculus. It's not that useful an argument though.

Haskell was designed to show what you could do with a lazy functional
language, and it does that well. It is the case that you can do things
in this environment that are not possible in other languages. Whether
these are worth the constraints or not is a different issue.

Phil



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]