[Lvlug] Emacs: Black Text on White Background, Courier 12 Pt. Font

[Hanuman]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:

> * Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> [2005-08-20T18:54:10]
>> I'm going to hate myself in the morning, but I've decided to dig into Lisp a
>> little deeper (I won't tell you about my early experiences with Lisp, 25+
>> years ago).  I found  > An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
>> which seems like a pretty nice tutorial (and avoids, at least
>> initially, the CADDR stuff that drove me crazy back in the day (not
>> because I didn't understand it, but because that's all they seemed to
>> try to teach about it).
>
> I would advise you to avoid focusing on Elisp.  It's ancient and
> irrelevant, except for use in Emacs.

Indeed. I was just reading about the difference between interned and
uninterned symbols and decided they were completely dumb. It wouldn't be
as bad if (eq 'uninterned-sym 'interned-sym), but there should be a
different way to check if a variable is in use.

> Consider Common Lisp (for which
> see Practical Common Lisp [1]) or Scheme (for which see some random web
> tutorial [2] or whatever Hever suggests today).
>
> [1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
> [2] http://cs.wwc.edu/~cs_dept/KU/PR/Scheme.html

Get the book 'The Scheme Programming Language'. It's on the web. Also,
see http://schemers.org/ and http://schemewiki.org/

- Hanu-mizzle