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

[Emanuel Berg]

Bob Rogers wrote:

> I think we are not really talking about arbitrary decisions
> here, but about language style decisions, which may seem
> arbitrary (especially if you disagree with the style of the
> resulting language!) but do matter to the consistency and
> coherence of the resulting language. And, although my
> experience only goes back to Emacs 18, I think the original
> Emacs Lisp had a definite style that set it apart from other
> Lisp dialects. But that was a long time ago, and Emacs Lisp
> has grown enormously (as someone else pointed out early in
> the original thread) to support the enormous growth in
> Emacs, so that original style is now much harder to see.
> (Indeed, I notice it mostly when updating my old code.)

So let's hear it then, what is it that sets Emacs 18 Elisp
apart from Emacs 30 Elisp

> So, Richard, I see that you are fighting to preserve
> something real and important -- your vision of Emacs Lisp as
> a coherent language --

and how is the Emacs 30 Elisp less coherent than the
Emacs 18 Elisp?

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