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Subject: Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive
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> From: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:32:53 +0000
> 
> > It's too late to introduce changes in that terminology.
> 
> Why?

Because generations of ELisp programmers are used to it.