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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Emacs unfortunately uses Emacs lisp, not common lisp or scheme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There was that one attempt to rewrite Emacs in cl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And that didn't work? I would have thought it would be quite popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think that Emacs itself was mostly implemented, but they couldn't get people to rewrite all of their user generated content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh, right. That makes sense.

[–] merc 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What are the main differences?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Emacs is a bunch older than common lisp.

One of its more idiosyncratic design decisions was using dynamic scope, rather than lexical scope. They did add in per-file lexical scope, though.

It also just doesn't implement a lot of common lisp's standard library.