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_cipher_ | 5 years 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.

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dleslie|5 years ago

Right?

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|5 years ago

Also left out LaTeX.

anamexis|5 years ago

I generally agree, but re #2, there is Clojure.

_cipher_|5 years ago

Yes, you are correct! Thanks.

Shame though that neither common lisp or scheme are present.

dan-robertson|5 years ago

I 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|5 years ago

Elisp 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.

anoncake|5 years ago

Elisp wasn't included either, but I guess the question above covers that.