From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is Elisp a lisp-2?
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:53:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007105328.GA22970@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25ac0468-e211-a62a-26d3-90d400c34937@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:17:12PM +0300, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote:
> From the time I started using Elisp I never gave much conscious
> thought to it being a lisp-2 and kind of naturally treated it as a
> lisp-1. And now it has finally downed on me that Elisp is actually a
> lisp-2.
>
> So here my question, what was the historical reasoning for Elisp
> being a lisp-2?
I think this is mainly historical: the very terms lisp-1 and lisp-2 were
coined 1988 [1]. Emacs was already there back then. When Emacs was born, all
Lisps were lisp-2, or thereabouts.
Take this with a fist of salt, though. My historical knowledge is not
*that* deep. Perhaps someone with more history chops wants to chime in.
Regards
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#The_function_namespace
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 10:17 Why is Elisp a lisp-2? Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-10-07 10:53 ` tomas [this message]
2016-10-07 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-08 13:02 ` tomas
2016-10-07 10:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-10 13:31 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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