My (potentially misunderstood) interpretation of why ELisp exists is due to the fact that Scheme was unsuitable because it's lexically scoped (which was potenti

My (potentially misunderstood) interpretation of why ELisp exists is due to the fact that Scheme was unsuitable because it's lexically scoped (which was potentially less efficient). The dynamic scope of ELisp is advantageous for things like temporary mode mapping changes, buffer local variables, etc (See: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC17 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC17). Scheme of course provides `fluid-let` and Common Lisp also allows for dynamic binding > all of the effort was invested into making Guile run properly (which took them 25 years and still nobody is using it) I think the first release of Guile was in 1995... Did I misinterpret your point?