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I think this survey was populated without any thought. 1. it does not specify to whom this website belongs to, neither what the purpose of this survey is 2. i
by _cipher_ 6y ago
I think this survey was populated without any thought.
1. it does not specify to whom this website belongs to, neither what the purpose of this survey is
2. in programming languages, there's not even one lisp dialect. In a survey. For Emacs. :p
[Edit]: correction for 2, as there's clojure. Thanks anamexis.
- anamexis 6y agoI generally agree, but re #2, there is Clojure.
- _cipher_ 6y agoYes, you are correct! Thanks. Shame though that neither common lisp or scheme are present.
- anoncake 6y agoElisp wasn't included either, but I guess the question above covers that.
- dleslie 6y agoRight? In terms of time spent programming in Emacs, my dominant languages would be C, C++, C#, Scheme, ELisp and Ruby. Seems odd to leave out the language Emacs was written in.
- jimhefferon 6y agoAlso left out LaTeX.
- dan-robertson 6y agoI think it’s because the took the list from the stack overflow developer survey. Probably they’re hoping to pick up more general emacs users and not emacs package developers
- guenthert 6y agoElisp can be used by package developers, but it is really meant to be used by Emacs users. In that, Emacs is fundamentally different than other editors. Users are not only enabled, but encouraged to extend their editor.
- dan-robertson 6y agoYes, but if you are using emacs for other work, you are hopefully spending most of your time doing that and not writing emacs lisp.