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Mar 16, 2018 at 21:31
Scheme and Common Lisp are much more different than I realised. They have very different error handling models, object systems, approaches to documentation (e.g. use of docstrings), not to mention conventions on iteration, recursion and early termination.

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I've released difftastic 0.57! In this release: * A bunch of improvements around detection and display of binary files. * Fixed some diffing issues with (ironically) text files. * Better diff results for Scheme.
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I've release difftastic 0.56! In this release: * Added support for Scheme and Smali * Improved JS, TypeScript, QML and Perl parsers * File permission changes are now reported
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