From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:27:19 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0i9egzm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.5343.1051607007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Daniel R. Anderson's message of "29 Apr 2003 04:57:38 -0400")
"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
> On emacswiki.org there is a "wish list". Quite a few people want emacs
> to be based on another version of LISP. Out of curiosity, what is it
> that makes elisp inherently bad, or why would people want it to be
> changed?
There's nothing inherently bad about Emacs Lisp, in my opinion. I
think it's a cute language that fun to work with.
However, it has some peculiarities that many people find
disconcerting. For instance -- all variables have dynamic scope,
which is somewhat unusual these days. There's no package system (to
avoid clobbering variables/functions from other packages). It
doesn't have much of an object system, and dispatching functions
based on type would be nice.
But there are really only two things that I think are really
important.
1) Emacs Lisp is kinda slow.
2) Emacs Lisp is single threaded.
But I like Emacs Lisp.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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[not found] <mailman.5343.1051607007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-29 10:22 ` Differences between Elisp and Lisp Friedrich Dominicus
2003-04-29 10:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-04-29 10:35 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-29 11:03 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 12:23 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 14:17 ` Thomas Link
2003-04-29 15:43 ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:56 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 16:44 ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 17:16 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 18:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 12:39 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-30 13:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 18:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-29 18:59 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-30 12:43 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 17:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-01 5:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01 5:41 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-05-01 5:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01 6:37 ` [OT] " Friedrich Dominicus
[not found] ` <yoijznm9y5yr.fsf@bilbo.dd.chalmers.se>
2003-04-29 13:45 ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:23 ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 15:28 ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 14:23 ` Marco Antoniotti
2003-04-29 14:29 ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 19:06 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 16:51 ` Kaz Kylheku
2003-04-29 8:57 Daniel R. Anderson
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