From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp anime video
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 17:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfyjkqfw.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20210905150506.GB19479@tuxteam.de
tomas wrote:
>> And not that people were handling huge and complicated
>> nested data structures? Which sounds very impractical and
>> error prone? Only they were so skilled it still worked?
>> With `car', `cdr', and, literally, 28 combinations?
>
> Never forget that a list's car can also be... a list.
> That's the fun part :-)
Indeed, the universal data structure is a list (or a pair
even) ... with that you can express, store, and compute
everything and anything (that is computable).
>> I never understood that, well, in general, but
>> specifically, what are "patterns and metapatterns" and
>> how/when is it that "we" use those?
>
> All the time :)
Do tell ...
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