Stallman may ‘not have a very high opinion of many of the decisions that were made in Common Lisp’ but in my opinion he’s just wrong here. Emacs would be even

Stallman may ‘not have a very high opinion of many of the decisions that were made in Common Lisp’ but in my opinion he’s just wrong here. Emacs would be even more valuable than it is had it been implemented in Common Lisp. Frankly Elisp would be better had it had lexical scoping from the beginning, and if it had Lisp’s condition system, packages and — yes — keyword arguments from the beginning.