Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Po Lu]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> The abstractions elevate Elisp to new levels, and from there,
> they make it easier for everyone else writing code not having
> to do on the level of very basic building blocks. Relying on
> wizards to juggle and combine basics like crazy to achieve
> wonders isn't the way computer technology has been moving
> forward, on the contrary that has been done by moving
> complexity into modules and providing neat interfaces so
> people only have to master the interfaces, not the details
> what happens below that to carry out the desired task.

When such interfaces number greater than the finer details, that proves
so much more challenging than expressing these details with the
elementary operations which constitute them.