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Racket is getting pretty popular. Emacs is built on emacs-lisp. And now this is based on guile. I wonder how different these three lisps/schemes are. I feel li
by fizixer 12y ago
Racket is getting pretty popular. Emacs is built on emacs-lisp. And now this is based on guile. I wonder how different these three lisps/schemes are.
I feel lisp enlightenment is long overdue for me. I'm just too busy for the past few years.
- gkya 12y agoElisp is quite old and lacking some modern features like lexical scoping and tail recursion as far as I know. I recall a project for replacing Elisp with Guile: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
- malisper 12y agoElisp recently gained optional lexical scoping[0]. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Using-Lexical-Binding.html#Using-Lexical-Binding https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Us...