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Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp
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Rusi |
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Re: Real-life examples of lexical binding in Emacs Lisp |
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Sat, 30 May 2015 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) |
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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