Python's Lisp heritage

Neil Schemenauer nas at python.ca
Tue Apr 23 23:44:55 EDT 2002


Tim Peters wrote:
> Dynamic scoping is attractive for implementation reasons; everyone who
> succumbs eventually regrets it (except for RMS in elisp ...).

There's still time. :-)  Erik Naggum has suggested that Emacs should be
re-implemented in Common Lisp.  That would be cool but I probably still
wouldn't use it.

  vi-forever-ly-y'rs Neil





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