From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4c247f74-529f-41e4-9712-221560ff7c6c@googlegroups.com> References: <7b497693-bd08-45c0-99f4-e70836437535@googlegroups.com> <87y4k6rr2i.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433003719 16847 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2015 16:35:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 16:35:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 30 18:35:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YyjjC-00065C-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 May 2015 18:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyjjB-0002Hg-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 May 2015 12:35:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.50.136.234 with SMTP id qd10mr4255012igb.0.1433003553116; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:32:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.25.199 with SMTP id e7mr45163igg.16.1433003553094; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no446796igd.0!news-out.google.com!kd3ni32205igb.0!nntp.google.com!h15no759647igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87y4k6rr2i.fsf@debian.uxu> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.43.191; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.43.191 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 16:32:33 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212405 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104689 Archived-At: On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:27:25 PM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Contrary to this situation, Lisp is right in front of > us. There is no modelling in the world that will > enhance our understanding of Lisp more than we write, > say, 50 lines of it every day. And, doing that, one > might actually do something useful while at it! Some very eminent Lispers perceive Lisp rather differently: | Lisp... McCarthy did as a theoretical exercise-- an effort to define a more | convenient alternative to the Turing Machine. Lisp was not really designed to | be a programming language >From http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html