Kind of surprising, since Stallman was a developer with and user of Lisp Machine Lisp, the single biggest influence of Common Lisp. Maclisp and its successor L

Kind of surprising, since Stallman was a developer with and user of Lisp Machine Lisp, the single biggest influence of Common Lisp. Maclisp and its successor Lisp Machine Lisp, were probably his biggest influences. Emacs Lisp is based on Maclisp - without the features of Lisp Machine Lisp like keyword arguments, Flavors as the object-system, ...