Why don't people like lisp?

[David Mertz]

Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org> wrote previously:
|~bruce$ ls -l `which emacs`
|-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4596224 Sep 24 04:29 /usr/bin/emacs
|~bruce$ ls -l /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ X/Microsoft\ Word
|-rwxr-xr-x  1 bruce  admin  10568066 Sep 26  2002
|/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Microsoft Word

Not even Windows users use MS-Word to edit program code; this is a
completely irrelevant comparison.

For more realistic ones (from my OS/2 machine that I'm sitting at, and
the editors I actually use):

  D:\editors % ls boxer\b2.exe jEdit4.2pre1\jedit.jar fte\fte.exe
   3-24-95   7:00a    317127           0  b2.exe
   5-06-03   1:36a   2797098         219  jedit.jar
   1-04-00   9:19p    585235           0  fte.exe

On a Linux box where my website is hosted (and emacs isn't installed
even if I wanted to use it):

  ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/vim
  -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     root       166160 Feb 28  2001 /usr/bin/joe*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1172464 Dec  5  2001 /usr/bin/vim*

On my Macs I use jEdit too, so the size is basically the same (although
I have a bit more up-to-date version there).  On my FreeBSD box maybe
I'll use kEdit or kDevel, or jed or vim; but I'm not sure of file sizes
from here.

IOW: Emacs is BLOATED.

Yours, David...

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