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4:24:53
stylewarning
does anyone know how to make SLIME not try to be "smart" about opening buffers?
15:34:37
scymtym_
could sbcl users who are annoyed with ironclad compile times try compiling ironclad with https://github.com/scymtym/sbcl/tree/pack-iterative-hopefully-final and report whether/how much times improve? thanks in advance
15:41:53
trafaret1
I just newbie in programming and I have question. I find emacs very suitable for programming and I see how powerfull it might be. But need I learn elisp to handle with it properly?
15:44:22
jackdaniel
I use emacs for years and I know elisp only briefly (and didn't know it at all at first)
15:48:39
trafaret1
what is the diffrence between lisp and mathematica languages. I just know it is functional programming languages. Are they interchangable?
15:50:36
jackdaniel
mathematics are more declarative than functional. Common Lisp is multi-paradigm programming language and the most dominant approach atm is OOP
15:51:01
minion
trafaret1: please look at gentle: "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" is a smoother introduction to lisp programming. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
15:51:20
Fare
mathematica is based on some generalized rewrite logic, whereas Common Lisp is based on the more narrowly defined rewrites of the lambda calculus
15:52:19
Fare
Common Lisp also has older roots with lots of low-level side-effects and quirks, and a low-level namespacing mechanism.
15:52:43
Fare
mathematica usually works without namespacing; they do have some namespacing mechanism, but I've never seen or used it.
15:53:30
Fare
has the mathematica core language been open sourced yet? wolfram said he was working on it and it should be complete this year
16:08:21
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I have a question regarding the getopt lisp module... I am just at the beginning of learning LISP, and could not find any documentation or examples on how to use it. I use Clozure LISP (CCL).