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Emacs Lisp

AKA elisp

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Summary

A dialect of Lisp used as the extension language for the Emacs text editor, providing powerful customization and extension capabilities.

Paradigms

functional, imperative, reflective, meta-programming

Domains

text processing, scripting, automation

Key Features

first-class functions, closures, macros, reflection, meta-programming

Typing

dynamic system, strong typing, none inference, runtime checking, conservative type coercion, no type annotations

Compilation

interpreted

Influenced By

Lisp, MacLisp, Common Lisp

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File extensions

el, elc

External Links

Status active
Type programming
Created 1985
Designed by Richard Stallman
Developed by GNU Project
PyPL Index N/A
TIOBE Index N/A
GitHub rank #32