EMACS noobie learning Elisp

[K.I.L.E.R]

Why?
I love to do batch calculations for assignments(such as my stats assignment).
I would much prefer to use a scripting language for this sort of thing(not like JScript) but something reasonably powerful and quick as opposed to going the whole 9 yards in C++ or Java.

The reason I want to learn ELisp is because I'm doing almost everything under EMACS now, I'm almost running my OS from EMACS.
Due to this I would like to learn ELisp for the sake of editing EMACS and doing batch calculations.

The question is, is Elisp suited towards batch calculations performance wise or even ease of use?

Thanks.

[archie4oz]

Why?
I love to do batch calculations for assignments(such as my stats assignment).
I would much prefer to use a scripting language for this sort of thing(not like JScript) but something reasonably powerful and quick as opposed to going the whole 9 yards in C++ or Java.

The reason I want to learn ELisp is because I'm doing almost everything under EMACS now, I'm almost running my OS from EMACS.
Due to this I would like to learn ELisp for the sake of editing EMACS and doing batch calculations.

The question is, is Elisp suited towards batch calculations performance wise or even ease of use?

Thanks.

What sort of batch calculations...? It should be fine however (you can compile into byte-code if you need a bit more performance) although it wouldn't hurt to extend that study into full CL (and if you do, you'll want to install slime as well)...

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks.
Batch processing such as:
*Emacs batch mode constantly polls a directory
*A CSV file is added to the directory
*Lisp code detects this and starts to process it.=