Re: emacs lisp problem

[Rob Thorpe]

Heng Xu <xuheng@iastate.edu> wrote in message 
news:<bf3uo9$ho8$1@news.iastate.edu>...
> Hi, all,
> 
> I am a newbie to lisp and I am using Emacs most of the time. I heard 
> from people that emacs's lisp capacity is really limited. I want to use 
> emacs to continue learning lisp though. Is there a way out? Thanks a 
> ton!:-))

>From the "lingustic power" point of view little is missing.  From a
speed point of view it's not good.  The main problem is you are using
Emacs i/o so it's no good if your looking to do something unrelated. 
If you are doing something unrelated try Scheme or Common Lisp.