On the plus side there is a fair amount of conceptual overlap between Elisp and Common Lisp. Learning Lisp really is more learning a complete development envir

On the plus side there is a fair amount of conceptual overlap between Elisp and Common Lisp. Learning Lisp really is more learning a complete development environment; a development philosophy even. Sure you can write Lisp as you would C, editing in a basic editor and then compiling and running the complete program in a a shell, but it’s really missing the point. While that reduces the learning curve significantly, it reduces the benefits even more.