• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    8 months 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.