Re: [emacs-tangents] [External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> [2024-08-15 10:05]:
> Madhu wrote:
> 
> >>> Comprehension of the user's program reaches its greatest
> >>> heights for Lisp programs, because the simplicity of Lisp
> >>> syntax makes intelligent editing operations easier to
> >>> implement, while the complexity of other languages [...]
> >>
> >> Sorry, but we don't have _any_ of those advantages :)
> >
> > While the basic sexp structure sull seems the same, now to
> > understand the "modern code" you have to refer understand
> > and familiarize yourself and read documentation of the
> > constructs in the other languages before you can
> > understand elisp.
> 
> I have 29 656 functions (of those are 8040 interactive) if
> this script is correct [1]
> 
> For 'emacs -Q', or if you just run the script, the result is:
> 8559 functions (3014 interactive)

I got 983 in my Emacs Lisp directory. So I do not fund 30,000
functions in source too much really.