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On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:49:57
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors
make C look like Lisp...
This is because C is _clearly_ a dialect of Lisp . . .
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Erik Steven Harrison wrote:
: On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:49:57
: Dan Sugalski wrote:
:
: Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors
: make C look like Lisp...
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: This is because C is _clearly_ a dialect of Lisp . . .
Yeah, look at all the extra
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At 11:09 PM -0600 10/20/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
What's
Dan Sugalski wrote :
And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated
version of C, but C nonetheless.
Just like Perl 5 ;-)
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
Ok, how about this: Is there a reason Inot to? Or
should I not go there?
Off hand, it sounds expensive. I don't see a way to only let
the people who use it incur the penalty, but my vision isn't
the best in the world.
It should be possible to define the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Whipp) writes:
It should be possible to define the bookmark methods on the basic string
class to rebless the object onto a more powerful subclass.
That makes it a doubly good candidate for modulehood.
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At 10:53 AM -0700 10/21/02, Austin Hastings wrote:
Yeah, but emacs isn't written in any of those languages.
What, you're using emacs as an argument *for* something? :-P
And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated
version of C, but C nonetheless.
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At 2:20 PM -0600 10/21/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
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At 7:22 PM + 10/21/02, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote :
And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated
version of C, but C nonetheless.
Just like Perl 5 ;-)
Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors
make C look like Lisp...
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:20:56PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
Fair enough. Then tell me how you solve this problem: You have a text
file in a string, that the user has marked several places in. He's
referring to words for which he wants to keep bookmarks in. Now, he
deletes text (using
I didn't call the problem unreasonable, I was objecting to its
characterization as an essential feature. It isn't. A useful thing,
definitely, but there are a lot of those. It's hardly essential any
more than, say, a hash that automagically maps to the current
directory's files
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