Re: Why is Elisp a lisp-2?

[tomas]

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On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:17:12PM +0300, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote:
> From the time I started using Elisp I never gave much conscious
> thought to it being a lisp-2 and kind of naturally treated it as a
> lisp-1. And now it has finally downed on me that Elisp is actually a
> lisp-2.
> 
> So here my question, what was the historical reasoning for Elisp
> being a lisp-2?

I think this is mainly historical: the very terms lisp-1 and lisp-2 were
coined 1988 [1]. Emacs was already there back then. When Emacs was born, all
Lisps were lisp-2, or thereabouts.

Take this with a fist of salt, though. My historical knowledge is not
*that* deep. Perhaps someone with more history chops wants to chime in.

Regards

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#The_function_namespace
- -- tomás
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