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I do not believe a tool can only be useful for either getting things done quickly or solid engineering. Even a monster like JavaScript manages to support both m

• mickeyp 13y ago
  Very true, but I don't think that's the conclusion I was reaching. The very things that make some things easy, like dynamic scoping; advising things left and right; wholesale overriding functions in your init file; aliasing or fsetting things. Each one of these things adds technical debt, but in this case, the technical debt has no real cost as it's not often a shared project and is mostly limited to snippets and bits of code that gets stuck in a file and rarely touched again.
• judk 13y ago
  When someone says elisp is a mess, they are holding a high bar. It's not a mess like BASIC. JavaScript is not an improvement.