Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 5/22/23 02:44, Frederick Bartlett wrote:
> I’ve been using Emacs for nearly 30 years, but I was never taught it and
> did not take computer science classes (unless you count Fortran).
>
> FWIW, my main OS is Fedora Linux, though my company insists that everyone
> have Windows, so I also use WSL.


A possibility could be to read the following websites or books

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf

Christian Queinnec's book *Lisp In Small Pieces 
*https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172974

(I read the original French version, /Principes d'implantation de Scheme 
et Lisp/, ISBN 978-2-916466-03-3)

If you need more theory about compilation of Lisp and ML like languages, 
read Appel's book on /Compiling with Continuations/.


Of course I recommend downloading the latest GNU emacs snapshot source 
tarball and compiling it. I am doing so every day!

NB: my pet open source project is the RefPerSys inference engine on 
https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ and http://refpersys.org/


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