MitchMarq42 on Nostr: Every time I want to get into CommonLisp it's smooth sailing in the theory, ...
Every time I want to get into CommonLisp it's smooth sailing in the theory, everything is the same as elisp but slightly better, and then I go to use it in practice and end up in the wrong namespace, with no way of discovering what namespace has the things I want to use or even how to break out.
I get several chapters into a tutorial. It's a beautiful, wonderful tutorial. I am bored since everything is as I expect. I look at the table of context. I'm on chapter 5 and namespace/package are in chapter 22.
To anyone approaching this language in $CURRENTYEAR who's familiar with Emacs, this is the MAIN DIFFERENCE betw the two environments. And it's PRACTICALLY A FOOTNOTE.
Untagged to avoid y'all rightly telling me to just read the manuals. I will, eventually. And then I'll write one that puts this stuff at the very front. Where it F*ING BELONGS
I get several chapters into a tutorial. It's a beautiful, wonderful tutorial. I am bored since everything is as I expect. I look at the table of context. I'm on chapter 5 and namespace/package are in chapter 22.
To anyone approaching this language in $CURRENTYEAR who's familiar with Emacs, this is the MAIN DIFFERENCE betw the two environments. And it's PRACTICALLY A FOOTNOTE.
Untagged to avoid y'all rightly telling me to just read the manuals. I will, eventually. And then I'll write one that puts this stuff at the very front. Where it F*ING BELONGS