From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:42:09 +0200, Axel Reichert wrote:   
      
   > Emacs had very early a very capable Lisp ...   
      
   Fun fact: the very earliest versions of Emacs predated Lisp. They were   
   built on a different language--TECO. If you thought Lisp syntax was weird,   
   TECO was even weirder.   
      
   > Now the "Eastern Orthodox Editors" I referred to else-thread were   
   > extended using Rexx, also a quite fully-fledged language, and, back in   
   > the days, rather common on OS/2 and Amiga.   
      
   Didn’t have proper regular expressions, though.   
      
   > In my professional context (simulation of structural mechanics) the   
   > situation is similar: There were tools with proprietary extension   
   > languages (typically rather crippled) and others with more   
   > common/powerful/generic ones (Lisp, Tcl, Python). The former tools over   
   > the decades have often changed to these "better" languages as well.   
      
   Moral: proprietary tools tend to be a dead end, while open-source ones are   
   more future-proof.   
      
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