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Format: 19-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room  
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# Talk

<div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="emacsen-mainVideo"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--main.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2023/captions/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--main.vtt" default />"""<track kind="chapters" label="Chapters" src="/2023/captions/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--main--chapters.vtt" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video>[[!template id="chapters" vidid="emacsen-mainVideo" data="""
00:00.000 Introduction
00:17.000 Why Lisp matters
01:26.640 Why Emacs Lisp was chosen
02:54.841 Other "Emacsen"
03:38.581 Why not Common Lisp?
06:39.120 Common Lisp is still not dead or is always dead
08:30.080 Lem is a nice Emacsen implementation
08:58.260 Why not just use GNU Emacs?
10:31.080 Why Lem
14:03.080 Similarities and differences
15:49.600 Demo

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# Q&A

<div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="emacsen-qanda"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--answers.webm" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video><div>Listen to just the audio:<br /><audio controls preload="none" id="emacsen-qanda-audio" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--answers.opus"></audio></div><div></div>Duration: 1:08:14 minutes<div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--answers.opus">Download --answers.opus (39MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emacsen--the-emacsen-family-the-design-of-an-emacs-and-the-importance-of-lisp--fermin--answers.webm">Download --answers.webm (253MB)</a></li></ul></div></div>
# Description
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