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Emacs Lisp is a rare case of being in certain ways older than Scheme.

Common Lisp, which is the main representative of Lisp-2 family, is firmly in lexical scoping, which is what enabled the example in the linked article. It also has wild unrestricted macros, and much more stable language (less redoing work when moving from implementation to implementation, especially if you use wrapper libs around stuff outside standard library)



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