Interesting language comparison article

[Kyle Furlong]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> It's an interesting article with some quotable tidbits, but that the 
> author ended by praising Ruby with such enthusiasm made me skeptical of 
> his earlier claims.  I also thought it was a bit odd that his section on 
> Lisp was really a section on Emacs.  About the only conclusion I could 
> draw is that "Emacs is awesome and the tool of uber gurus, and Emacs is 
> tightly integrated with Lisp, therefore Lisp is uber cool but also only 
> for uber-gurus."  And even that's a stretch.
> 
> 
> Sean

Emacs is extremely difficult to grok for someone brought up in the RAD era.

It gives me a headache trying to use it "like a guru"

:-P