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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by pnathan on Friday December 09, 2011 @04:27PM (#3335701)
I wonder if there'd be a way to create an interop mode, which might look something similar to the way they are handling the lexical vs dynamic scoping.

That way authors could transition from elisp to common lisp.

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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by LukeShu on Saturday December 10, 2011 @10:09AM (#3337676)
There's already an effort to do this using Scheme, it's just not ready for this release.

Is CL really that much better than Scheme?

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Re:What’s New In Emacs 24 by pnathan on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:58PM (#3338025)
Not from a language-theoretic standpoint.

From a pragmatic standpoint, all standard-conforming Common Lisp code runs on a conformant implementation. Schemes often tend to diverge (and they have 6 different Rn standards). So I think CL is 'better' than Scheme, for that value of better.

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