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> Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 14 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. -- harvard >>>>>> | Robert Krawitzbloom-beacon > |think!rlk topaz >>>>>>>> . rlk@a.HASA.disorg