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

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:46:22 +0100 Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> Bob Rogers wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry I'm apparently unable to be more concrete about
>> explaining my impressions. Part of this is due to the
>> elapsed time. ISTR that, when I started reading Elisp in the
>> mid-90's, it had a "retro" feel compared to the other Lisps
>> I was using. As time went on, I've had to hit C-h f more and
>> more to understand what was going on, not only for language
>> features (pcase has been mentioned), but for editing
>> features like indirect buffers and overlays as they were
>> added -- not strictly part of the language, but again,
>> where's do you draw the boundary?
>
> To be honest, I have not seen any.
>
>>> Case in point, I don't see any such difference when I look
>>> at cl-lib.el?
>>
>> Between cl-lib.el and what?
>
> We have to get the Emacs 18 source so we can compare :)

You can find several versions here:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history

Steve Berman