On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ashok Gautham <[email protected]>wrote:
> The reason is it is used in a single application. I find very little usage > of > elisp beyond emacs. > "use" is often misunderstood. It is often what you know about the tool that makes a 'use' practical. For a machine learning course project I once had to fetch, parse, and analyze tonnes of web pages automatically. Well, it was actually implementing the algorithms in one of the early CS research papers that eventually lead to PageRank and beyond. I programmed in emacs lisp and ran the program in batch mode, and it worked perfectly. The reason I used emacs lisp for that purpose was very similar to why one uses a language like Java in day to day use - I was familiar with the language, and it had the necessary "libraries" that made the non-core task of web page fetching/parsing/etc. trivial - I used w3's routines extensively. anyways... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
