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"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub." -from beating the averages

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In fairness, elisp is pretty weird. Doesn't it still use dynamic scope? :P

Sincerely, the guy who writes stuff like

  execute a:method . resolve(expand('%:p:h') . "/" . tolower(a:entry) . ".ext")

(Yes, vimscript is insane, too)

As of Emacs 24, either dynamic or lexical binding is available. Dynamic binding is the default though.

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