Emacs Lisp

Emacs Lisp is a Lisp dialect made for Emacs. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C, as is the Lisp interpreter. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1985
Designed by: GNU Project • Guy L. Steele
Developed by: Richard Stallman
Named after: Emacs
Aliases: Elisp, .el
File extensions: el, elc

Wikidata: Q1334586

Influenced by: Common Lisp • Maclisp

Programming paradigms: functional programming • metaprogramming • reflective programming

Language types: scripting language • imperative programming language • dynamic programming language • functional programming language

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Hello World in Emacs Lisp

(message "Hello World")

Source: github.com/leachim6/hello-world

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