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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by lispm on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:26PM (#6074093)
How is using an editor making them Lisp users? Are users of Google's flight search engine, written in Common Lisp, making them Common Lisp users? Are AutoCAD users Lisp users?

How many Emacs users just use it? How many already need help to configure .emacs ?

Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by kragen on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:38PM (#6074123)
Typically AutoCAD users are not AutoLISP users. (By the way, AutoLISP conses are also immutable, although you have complained that the immutability and resulting "persistence" of Clojure lists counts against calling it a Lisp.) But typically Emacs users are indeed Elisp users, because they read, write, and modify Elisp code. That's why there are several thousand Elisp repositories on GitHub.