Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!rlk
From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Portability problem with gnu-emacs
Message-ID: <28474@think.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 01:32:20 GMT
References: <441@myab.se> <394@augean.OZ> <305@talos.UUCP> <1252@titan.SW.MCC.COM>
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In-reply-to: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)

In article <1252@titan.SW.MCC.COM>, janssen@titan (Bill Janssen) writes:
]In article <305@talos.UUCP>, kjones@talos (Kyle Jones) writes:
]>GNU Emacs Lisp is clearly less complex than full Common Lisp...
]"Clearly".  uh-huh.

The problem is that it's missing a fair number of useful features, and
there are a few major problems mostly with the reader (lack of reader
macros, only dynamic scoping, and case sEnSiTiViTy).  Other than that,
it's quite powerful indeed, and it doesn't seem a lot "simpler"
conceptually.
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