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> Once you get used to that model of using a computer, it feels crippling to use applications that you can't easily program in on the fly.

Funnily enough, that's how I feel about Lisp itself: I love having a language I can program at runtime, at compile-time, at read-time (and, in a decent editor, at edit-time).

It really makes me wish that there were a decent modern Lisp OS. It'd need some solution to run Firefox and emulate emacs. Maybe when I retire I'll devote my remaining years to that.




I feel obligated to point out that people have run emacs as pid 1 on Linux. That's... some level of lisp OS, surely.


I don't believe they have, in any real capacity. Can emacs reap processes? Is there an elisp binding for every kernel syscall?




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