I found some of the messages I was thinking of (this stuff is scattered across many years of debates, so there are probably others). Clisp maintainer on how lo

I found some of the messages I was thinking of (this stuff is scattered across many years of debates, so there are probably others). Clisp maintainer on how loading Elisp into clisp was a weekend's work (2002, but talking about work from "a couple of years ago"): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-08/msg00040.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-08/msg00... Stallman arguing "Common Lisp is extremely complicated and ugly" and "would bloat Emacs terribly" (2010): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00612.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00...