{"id":23,"date":"2006-02-19T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-02-20T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T17:34:41","slug":"learning-lisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/learning-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigamonkeys.com\/book\/\"><img title=\"Practical Common Lisp\" alt=\"Practical Common Lisp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gigamonkeys.com\/book\/small-cover.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got Aquamacs, Allegro CL, and SLIME up and running on my iMac at home. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve already been using Vim for 5 years now. Emacs is certainly another world. But I am motivated one way or another to learn Lisp, and learning Emacs seems to go hand in hand with that. So far, Viper mode is my friend. But I&#8217;ve already gone so far as to swap my Capslock and Control keys, as recommended in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/effective-emacs.html#item1\">&#8220;Effective Emacs&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve worked through chapter 3 of Peter Seibel&#8217;s book and am now reading chapter 4. That macros are a way of life in Lisp is exciting. I&#8217;ve gotten a glimpse of their power with XSLT, but I&#8217;m looking forward to taking it to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got Aquamacs, Allegro CL, and SLIME up and running on my iMac at home. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve already been using Vim for 5 years now. Emacs is certainly another world. But I am motivated one way or another to learn Lisp, and learning Emacs seems to go hand in hand with that. So far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}