Plankalkül, the world's first high-level proramming language, was created in 1945!
miniblog.
Pollen is a fascinating publishing tool: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ It's extensible (unlike markdown), innovative and has impressive examples.
Emacs package of the day: interaction-log https://melpa.org/#/interaction-log It's a nicer *Messages* and view-lossage combined!
My git workflow changes as I learn. I'm now comfortable squashing, so I now do lots of incremental commits and tidy up after.
Is there really such a thing as a lisp-2? Most lisps I've played with have been a lisp-1 or a lisp-n.
I've been exploring using nameless: https://github.com/Malabarba/Nameless for elisp today. It's an effective, idiomatic solution to elisp namespaces.
I'm a happy Arch Linux user, but I often meet people who think Arch is a compile-from-scratch distro. Where does this idea come from?
Emacs tip: are your tracebacks full of unprintable characters from closures? Run eval-buffer on the dodgy library to get a proper backtrace.
Achievement unlocked: legitimately needed paredit-convolute-sexp! (Great example of usage here: https://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html )
What is the relationship between ctags, etags, ebrowse, gnu global and semantic?
I've found *4* C parsers in Emacs! Eg funcs: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/c7bef6a4f033fa6b22906de0be6da54958d5b3c3/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el#L10092 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/bc96f6e827ba079006ae87914395942fc79f3f26/admin/grammars/c.by#L787 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/bc96f6e827ba079006ae87914395942fc79f3f26/lib-src/etags.c#L3857
Is an unmatched " a compile error in C/C++? Not necessarily, it's undefined!
I will be attending the LLVM developers meeting! The schedule looks great: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-03/#schedule (do say hi!)
Did you know that the Emacs core contributors use continuous integration? https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/emacs-trunk (It even uses nix!)
LL and LR Parsing Demystified https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demystified.html (really accessible blog post that gives an intuitive understanding of LL/LR parsing)
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