Good points - when I said it [ELisp] was ancient I was referring to the "dynamic scope" argument someone else deeper in the thread already mentioned. I've read

Good points - when I said it [ELisp] was ancient I was referring to the "dynamic scope" argument someone else deeper in the thread already mentioned. I've read a lot of conflicting opinions about it so I suppose I should stop assuming it is either good or bad and actually create my own opinion of it by doing my own research.