Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Po Lu]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Isn't conventional wisdom on the contrary that functional
> programming principles make programs shorter and more modular,
> so more re-usable and with less overhead reading and
> understanding individual parts at the detail-level?

Of course, much as conventional wisdom generally extols the virtues of
practices that are "in" at any given moment.  I prefer to set store by
my eyes.