Re: CL package serious deficiencies

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nix writes:

 > (FWIW, the *last* time I asked about this, many years ago, I was told
 > that runtime use of cl was out of the question because it used too much
 > memory. I presume that this argument is obsolete :) )

The feeling I get is that some senior Emacs developers simply rather
dislike Common Lisp, think that the programming style it encourages
sucks, and don't want to see it in code they work on frequently.

Ah, the sweet smell of "technical differences" in the design fog....