From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book recommendation Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:13:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87pseki69j.fsf@mail.com> References: <878xl8345t.fsf@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156822839 18633 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 03:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 05:40:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHuSg-0006gX-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHuSg-00018s-H6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Original-X-Trace: individual.net dvB3BecHyxl1wKwVRmtNUQK3VG8BLGuRbRHy9UarhKQgW6XRKo X-Orig-Path: news.ibm.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vscd6Sdy6dAA6dDZpUpGstZbzAE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141401 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37021 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow writes: >>>>>> "Hadron" == Hadron Quark writes: > > Hadron> The elisp info/manual is too much like a standard. > > That's a shame -- I think that manual is one of the better ones I've > ever read. > > Hadron> Is there a K&R type book you can recommend for elisp? > > Well, there's http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro. Not > very K&R-like, but perhaps it'll do. I was blind. I only saw the Elisp Reference Manual. Doh. Yes, the introduction is excellent. Thanks. > > Hadron> How much like "Lisp" is "elisp"? > > elisp _is_ Lisp. You probably meant "How much like Common Lisp is > elisp". I don't know. It has lots in common, and many differences. Same thing really :) If eLisp is Lisp then Lisp could be common Lisp ... but I take it that its close enough then. > > Hadron> is there *a* Lisp? or does it vary a lot? > > Try http://lisp.org/alu/home; click the "Lisp Resources" link. > Great thanks. > Hadron> What would you recommend for someone to get to grips with > Hadron> advanced Lisp programming in emacs? > > The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. > > Hadron> Is (debugger) the only debugger? > > There's edebug-mode. Very handy. Thanks again. > > -- > In the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for > making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable > luxury, but a matter of life and death. > -- Edsger W. Dijkstra: My Hopes of Computing Science (EWD 709) > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd07xx/EWD709.PDF > > > --