From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Is it better to use eLISP or Common LISP?
Date: 21 Oct 2003 12:09:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfoewaj18o.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2029.1066682270.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>> * Dan Anderson <qna@znguwhaxvrf.pbz> [2003-10-20 14:22:43 -0400]:
>>
>> I am thinking of hacking some LISP for a project manager.[...] Since
>> I'd be learning LISP for the first time, what would be best to
>> do? Also, are there any reasons why?
Sam> The choice is between "Emacs-Lisp" and "Common Lisp".
Sam> I recommend Common Lisp.
Sam> Emacs-Lisp is a largely obsolete dialect,
Sam> Common Lisp is a modern standard language
If you want to learn a lisp, then Common Lisp would probably be the
better choice.
If you want to modify the behaviour of Emacs, then Emacs Lisp would be
the better choice.
>> I know that I can either use Emacs LISP or the eLISP file that
>> interfaces with common LISP.
I don't know what this means. What "elisp file that interfaces with
common lisp". If you want emacs to do things, then you can use emacs
lisp, or emacs lisp.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-21 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-20 18:22 Is it better to use eLISP or Common LISP? Dan Anderson
2003-10-20 20:37 ` Sam Steingold
[not found] ` <mailman.2029.1066682270.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 11:09 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-10-21 14:36 ` Dan Anderson
[not found] ` <mailman.2070.1066747062.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 14:53 ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-22 8:23 ` Tim X
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=vfoewaj18o.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk \
--to=p.lord@russet.org.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).