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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Why Lisp “Lost”

Back in 2018, Steve Losh wrote a very nice, long post on A Road to Common Lisp. If you’re a Lisper, it’s well worth reading. Recently, Alexander_Selkirk posted, without comment, a link to that post. The last time I wrote … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Parenthesis In Lisp

I love Lisp. I think it’s the perfect language for a very wide variety of problems, that it’s powerful, easy to learn, and that it provides the perfect environment for what I call exploratory programming. There are some downsides. One … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Stop Forcing Dark Mode On Us

As you all know, we here at the Irreal bunker are not fans of dark mode. Of course, if you’re a benighted soul who likes dwelling in the dark on your own computer, I may shake my head in bewilderment … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Notepad Vs. Emacs

Of all the pretenders to the Emacs crown, notepad strikes me as the most ludicrous. I am not, apparently, the only one. This cartoon captures my feelings exactly. The Emacs haters were, of course, out in force trying to deflect … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Where Should Your Configuration Live?

When I started using Emacs, just about everybody stored their configuration in ~/.emacs. Then it seemed as if folks were using ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead. For a long time when I was writing about Emacs configurations I would write something along the … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs Use == Skills

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Thick_Rest7609 says that he associates Emacs use with skill. In particular, he says that he’s inclined to presume presentations using Emacs are representative of a skilled user, whereas a presentation using VS Code is not. … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Using The Command Line

When I saw this post, I knew was getting old. The post was about why every developer should learn to use the command line in 2024. My reaction was, “Say what!?!” To me, it was like saying every baby should … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs For Word

In what has to be the silliest question of the week, Kiiwyy, over at the Emacs subreddit, asks do you use Emacs as a substitute for Word. In particular, he’s wondering if people use Emacs for class or project notes. … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: An Old Meme

This one’s for you Vimistas. It’s an old meme, for sure—indeed, the post is 10 years old—but still good for a laugh. I vaguely remember a couple of (non-editor) products named “Emacs” but “Vim” definitely has the cleanser market cornered. … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Lisp Syntax Boring

Wait. What? Is Lisp syntax boring? My immediate response is, “Of course it is.” That’s its strength. Lisp doesn’t have much syntax so unlike other languages you can immediately start using the language without having to worry about learning a … Continue reading

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