▲ 927 ▼ Every language has its niche (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 164 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) What are the main differences? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
