Fabulous paper on the history of Emacs Lisp and its design:
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I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.
TIL that Pong was originally a warm-up exercise for a new employee at Atari!
@aburka Interesting, today I learnt.
I don't know the history of this syntax: there doesn't seem to be much precedent for ^ as a range in any PLs that I can think of.