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I've seen several posts now with this same theme. Emacs is an awesome lisp IDE and it appears to be not widely known that emacs is written primarily in elisp,
by bitdiddle 16y ago
I've seen several posts now with this same theme.
Emacs is an awesome lisp IDE and it appears to be not widely known that emacs is written primarily in elisp, a lisp dialect.
So I would highly recommend learning emacs and elisp together and forget CL for the time being. Sure elisp isn't as pure as Scheme but it's still a good first start and learning the pitfalls of dynamic scope will provide an appreciation for the features of other lisps.
Moreover, though you may not use lisp much in your other work, by learning emacs/elisp you end up with an awesome programmable editor that you can use elsewhere.
- spacemanaki 16y agoI agree with you, Emacs is great and I am only just starting to realize how cool it is to have a Lisp environment underneath all the text editing facilities. But if this writer picked up Land of Lisp, they might not be that quick to drop Common Lisp and jump to Emacs Lisp. That being said, I think they should just start reading and hacking and not worry about which editor to use. That's going to be the least difficult part of learning Lisp, but people seem to make it out to be much more than that.