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Re: Book recommendation
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Eric Hanchrow |
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Re: Book recommendation |
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Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:58:12 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Hadron" == Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
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.
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.
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.
Hadron> is there *a* Lisp? or does it vary a lot?
Try http://lisp.org/alu/home; click the "Lisp Resources" link.
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.
--
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