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> What are the differences between elisp and lisp?

common lisp is a general purpose programming language with a well specified language and standard library. Elisp is intricately tied to emacs.

Notable differences are , till recently(?), elisp has only dynamic scoping for variables. Common lisp has, by default, lexical scoping for variables (while also allowing dynamic scoping). Common lisp has much better support for closures than elisp. Common lisp has very mature commercial and open source compilers that produce very efficient code.