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Emacs is a Lisp machine

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On Lisp...

...because Emacs is a Lisp machine.

Eli Zaretskii,emacs-devel,(in specific context), 2023

(co-maintainer of Emacs)

Lisp is the most powerful and elegant of programming languages. If you want to see how powerful and elegant a programming language can be, you need to learn Lisp. It will give you standard for measuring other languages.

RMS (Richard Stallman), emacs-devel, 2015.

Lisp is the most elegant and powerful programming language. That is what we should say. In Lisp, programs are structured data and it is easy to write other Lisp programs to operate on them.

Programmers that don’t know Lisp do not realize what is missing in other prograamming languages.

RMS (Richard Stallman), emacs-devel, 2015.

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