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2021-06-28 20:46 #

And then, you learned about it: M-x shell.
It was all just text. Why did you need another application for it? Why should only the shell prompt be editable? Why can’t I move my cursor up a few lines to where the last command spewed out its results? All these problems simply disappear when your shell (or shells) simply becomes another Emacs buffer, upon which all of the text manipulation power of Emacs can be brought to bear. — Blurring the lines between shell and editor

2021-06-28 16:27 #

What I’ve learned about data recently. Good points re. Learning 1 and 3.

2021-06-24 15:05 #
2021-06-23 20:50 #

  Shahin Novrasli, From Baku to New York City.

2021-06-23 12:37 #

For simple expressions, parentheses are a form of static typechecking. If you model a Lisp as a stack language that evaluates from right to left, each parenthesized block must push exactly one value onto the stack, and must not consume any values. — Parentheses are Just Typechecking

2021-06-21 13:12 #
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