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Don’t Build Your Own Lisp

As someone who has worked on various Lisp implementations over time, as well as programmed in Lisp, C, C++, Java, and several other programming languages, I feel vaguely knowledgeable enough to give a pretty harsh review of this book. First off: God help you if you are going to write your first interpreter in C of all things. No one I know thinks it’s a good idea to start inventing a programming language, which perhaps is one of the more ill-defined and bug-prone things you can do, with an implementation in C. So the premise is already a bad

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MACLISP and MACSYMA on PDP-10 / ITS (emulation)

Goals

On a Debian machine, using simh emulating a PDP-10 running ITS:

1. Write some Lisp files on ITS, compile them, and run them.
2. Run MACSYMA and view rendered plots on an emulated Tektronix 4010

Background

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;;; init.el --- Fun stuff all around -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;;; Commentary:
;; This is a simple init.el which offers a Python configuration.  Each package
;; usage is annotated with the how and why of its use.  `use-package' is used to
;; manage the configuration as it provides lots of facilities to load modes,
;; define custom variables and key-maps, etc.

;;; Code: