nifty to Programmer Humor • 7 months agoEvery language has its nichelemmy.worldimagemessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1967arrow-down143
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•7 months agoEmacs 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.
What are the main differences?
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.