funk443

joined 11 months ago
[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

So I can do terminal stuffs in Emacs, instead of having to open another terminal window

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The good old pencil and paper, always reliable

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lmao, that vim guy got blown out of the water

 

For example, I've seen someone defining a package like so:

(defpackage :foobar
  (:use :cl))

instead of:

(defpackage foobar
  (:use cl))

Is there any actual difference? Or it's just a personal preference, and has no effect on the program at all?

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

In Common Lisp, as opposed to Scheme, it is not possible that the car of the compound form to be evaluated is an arbitrary form. If it is not a symbol, it must be a lambda expression, which looks like (lambda lambda-list form*).

This

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It means the guy enlarged the texts in his buffer by 1 level

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Write a simple project with each of these languages, and you'll get the idea