From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: vmarko@ipb.ac.rs
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Several beginner-questions
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:48:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3gw1aoi.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107270357.06385.vvmarko@gmail.com> (Marko Vojinovic's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:57:05 +0100")
* 2011-07-27T03:57:05+01:00 * Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> [...] I'm fairly new to Emacs, and Lisp is also somewhat a mistery for
> me (although I am familiar with the concepts of functional programming
> in general).
Emacs Lisp, and other popular Lisps as well, are multi-paradigm
languages. They support many paradigms but do not force any of them. For
example, imperative and functional programming is supported. It's a
common myth that Lisps are (purely) functional languages. They are not.
In my experience the first big difference for a Lisp newbie is that
there are no separate statements and expressions; there are only
expressions. Another thing to realize is that Lisp code is actually Lisp
data (trees of cons cells).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-24 22:22 Several beginner-questions Marko Vojinovic
2011-07-25 15:06 ` suvayu ali
2011-07-27 1:05 ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-07-27 1:36 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-15 0:36 ` Ken Goldman
2011-08-15 0:39 ` Ken Goldman
2011-07-25 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 2:57 ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-07-27 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 22:07 ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-07-29 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-29 18:07 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-07-27 6:48 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-07-27 13:57 ` Drew Adams
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2011-07-23 7:13 Marko Vojinovic
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