I've come across this before and it's pretty much correct: using Emacs Lisp as a scripting language can give a huge 'bang for the buck' when automating some exi

I've come across this before and it's pretty much correct: using Emacs Lisp as a scripting language can give a huge 'bang for the buck' when automating some existing Emacs feature/application. For any other task? Definitely avoid ELisp and go for a more 'mainstream' language. (In fact, I'm currently writing some ELisp scripts to automate ProofGeneral; reading HN while the test suite runs ;) )