Re: common lisp vs elisp.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:13 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
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> > It's well known that "Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition"
> > is a classic monograph on lisp language. I want to know how
> > they differ and to what extent.
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> Common Lisp (or CL, 1984) is the industrial-strength Lisp
> while Emacs Lisp (or Elisp, 1985) is the Emacs
> domain-specific Lisp.

So, the following questions come to my mind:

1. Does this mean that the former is a superset of the latter?
2. What's the standard compiler/debugger for the latter on *nix platforms?

HY
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
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