"for every polynomial-time algorithm you have, there is an exponential algorithm that I would rather run." Alan Perlis
miniblog.
Really interesting discussion of Scheme macros: http://t.co/BCixeolGnk
I think the ease of parsing is a big reason why so many lisp implementations exist. Parsing is much less fun than semantics.
Flycheck (already a must-have package) is getting even better! http://t.co/VjM6AKXT8I
Very approachable article on parsing CSS with Parsec: http://t.co/Y25fGXU587
"A distributed system is one where the failure of a machine you've never heard of stops you from being able to do your job."
Hat tip to @bruceconnor finding the cause of a byte-compilation bug that disappears when you use edebug!
Emacs' help has a rather simple display of syntax tables -- just lists of integers. Not terribly helpful.
Template Haskell is comparable to readermacros: http://t.co/fSFAmXZo4P (short worthwhile read)
Wow, http://t.co/E3bT0HCa3l was served by a lisp machine until 2001! http://t.co/pYcwWalg1K
Trying to wrap my head around syntactic closures.
You can go a really long way in elisp without ever writing a major mode. It's hard to find a language which doesn't have one already!
Yowza, Julia's Emacs mode has support for Emacs 22!
Emacs' checkdoc warned me: 'Probably "matches" should be imperative "match"'. I'm impressed it even does grammar checking of docstrings!
I'm still regularly impressed by magit. I'm also amused that there's an 'original sin' tag on legacy code:
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