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[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

There was that one attempt to rewrite Emacs in cl

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, right. That makes sense.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

What are the main differences?

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 8 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.

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