[comp.emacs] What exactly is emacs lisp?

odyssey@unix.SRI.COM (Odyssey Research Associates) (07/21/88)

I've looked through all the documentation and some of the source I got
with my release 18.50 tape, and I can't find documentation for emacs lisp.
Lots of examples, of course, and a chapter in the manual on the debugger,
but no documents!  Do I have a bad release tape, did I overlook 
 /usr/emacs/bin/lisp/doc/HereItIs.Dummy!, or is the system expected to
be self documenting (one of the three great lies ;-)?  I recently saw
some code on the net to extract the documentation phrases from funs that
have them, but surely there is something better somewhere.

I have access to usenet and arpanet, in case a file is lurking on some
semi-public machine.  

If this is a stupid question, thanks for your patience.

B<   Brian Kahn   odyssey@unix.sri.com   ...hplabs!sri-unix!orawest!brian