Why don't people like lisp?

Thomas Lindgren *********** at *****.***
Tue Oct 21 15:41:44 EDT 2003


mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz) writes:

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> IOW: Emacs is BLOATED.

I have 512 MB of memory on my $300 PC. Mozilla at the time of posting
eats 36M, emacs 15 M. I reckon that BLOAT will be approaching a real
problem when I run, like, twenty or thirty emacses or so, at once.

In short, a non-issue for the ordinary computer user.

Best,
                        Thomas
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Thomas Lindgren
"It's becoming popular? It must be in decline." -- Isaiah Berlin
 




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