From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Learning LISP; Scheme vs elisp. Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:30:34 +0100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: References: <55dbm5-qcl.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217623347 5688 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 20:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:42:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 22:43:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP1T1-0007IL-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:43:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38410 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KP1S6-0003c6-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:42:18 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-120/mm/ao (Ubuntu Hardy) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N3cvZNmsIkML00eQgEwVKg/+czM= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 01fde360.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=OE74NIFP_1cOl^j[\5YH4nL?0kYOcDh@j\; EUAhjO1]moQn=f1cQaRi_Si[dl3YCeiAFWBdCSZOL`4T6No^cQC4g Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160806 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:56154 Archived-At: On 2008-08-01, Joel J. Adamson wrote: > Adam> I've decided I ought to train myself in the most elegant > Adam> programming weapon --- http://xkcd.com/297/ --- so I've > Adam> started working through _The Structure and Interpretation of > Adam> Computer Programs_. > > Good idea: the best computer science book ever written --- and the only > one I've ever used :-P Good! > Adam> In the long term I hope I'll be able to customize Emacs more > Adam> in its native way instead of wrapping external Perl programs > Adam> in shell-command-on-region (as I often do now). > > Uh, what? Can you explain this? Can you explain why on Earth you > would do it? If you mean why do I do such a hideous thing now, it's because I *can* do string manipulation in Perl, whereas I can't (currently) do it in LISP (except for fairly trivial cases). Thanks for the rest of the information, which it will take a little while for me to digest. (I suspected my initial understanding of define's equivalents might be naïve.)