My dude! I'm feeling these items. Especially the white space. I've used coffeescript so I totally get it.

As for RMS from what I just looked up it seems he was making one of those computer scientist arguments like "all the aliens in the room are green" (because there are zero aliens in the room) type of no true scotsman arguments about an issue way too soon.

Again with LISP -- people can't get the syntax so they assume it can't be got.

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