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submitted 2 years ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are the main differences?

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Emacs is a bunch older than common lisp.

One of its more idiosyncratic design decisions was using dynamic scope, rather than lexical scope. They did add in per-file lexical scope, though.

It also just doesn't implement a lot of common lisp's standard library.