Re: Book recommendation

[Hadron Quark]

Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:

>>>>>> "Hadron" == Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
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>     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.
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>     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.

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>     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.

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> -- 
> 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
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