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Emacs Lisp is a Lisp dialect made for GNU 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.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emacs Lisp | Designed by | Richard Stallman, Guy L. Steele, Jr. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Developer | GNU Project | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Family | Lisp | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Filename extensions | .el, .elc, .eln | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | First appeared | 1985; 41 years ago (1985) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | License | GPLv3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | OS | cross-platform | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Paradigm | Functional, meta, reflective | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Platform | Emacs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Scope | Dynamic, optionally lexical | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Stable release | 30.2 / 14 August 2025; 12 months ago (2025-08-14) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Typing discipline | Dynamic, strong | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | Website | gnu.org/emacs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Emacs Lisp | is a | Lisp dialect made for GNU Emacs | 0.90 | text |
| Emacs Lisp | is a | Lisp-2 like Common Lisp | 0.90 | text |
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