Comments on: Caltrain.com written in EMACS Lisp? http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html 20 minutes into the future... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:11:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: smiley http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-49879 smiley Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:42:49 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-49879 <p>http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp_cycles.png</p> http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp_cycles.png

]]> By: Chris Barts http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-48200 Chris Barts Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:06:35 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-48200 <p>It's only evil if Emacs lives solely in the 'text editor' box in your mind. However, that's never been a good way to think about Emacs. Emacs has always been a computing environment (something more immersive than a shell, but less hardware-oriented than an operating system) where the organizing metaphor is 'editing a buffer'. That buffer can be a file, a directory, a sound file, or just about anything else. Of course, what Emacs really is is a Lisp compiler and bytecode interpreter (with a garbage-collection system to help things along). Thought about in that light, running a website on it is much more comprehensible.</p> It’s only evil if Emacs lives solely in the ‘text editor’ box in your mind. However, that’s never been a good way to think about Emacs. Emacs has always been a computing environment (something more immersive than a shell, but less hardware-oriented than an operating system) where the organizing metaphor is ‘editing a buffer’. That buffer can be a file, a directory, a sound file, or just about anything else. Of course, what Emacs really is is a Lisp compiler and bytecode interpreter (with a garbage-collection system to help things along). Thought about in that light, running a website on it is much more comprehensible.

]]> By: moo http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47893 moo Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:30:18 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47893 <p>that just looks like some inline sexps to muck about with html.</p> <p>not that there's any reason not to write webserver in elisp though: you could probably patch emacsclient to pass environ variables, and then use it for CGI dispatch. evil!</p> that just looks like some inline sexps to muck about with html.

not that there’s any reason not to write webserver in elisp though: you could probably patch emacsclient to pass environ variables, and then use it for CGI dispatch. evil!

]]> By: Diogo http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47857 Diogo Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:58:16 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47857 <p>It isnt properly emacs lisp. It could be, but it could be simply and abstraction layer on top of Common Lisp. Both Emacs-Lisp and Common Lisp give you the tools to create a completely different language on top of itself.</p> <p>In this case, looking at rhe name of the functions, it sure looks like it, but then again, you can't be exactly sure unless you check up on it or ask someone.</p> It isnt properly emacs lisp. It could be, but it could be simply and abstraction layer on top of Common Lisp. Both Emacs-Lisp and Common Lisp give you the tools to create a completely different language on top of itself.

In this case, looking at rhe name of the functions, it sure looks like it, but then again, you can’t be exactly sure unless you check up on it or ask someone.

]]> By: joe http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47830 joe Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:18:36 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47830 <p>Two common lisp web frameworks I know of: Uncommon Web, and this new one the defmacro guy's working on: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/weblocks-demo.html</p> Two common lisp web frameworks I know of: Uncommon Web, and this new one the defmacro guy’s working on: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/weblocks-demo.html

]]> By: Kim http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47822 Kim Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:20:05 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/07/23/caltraincom-written-in-emacs-lisp.html#comment-47822 <p>Emacs can run anything else, so why not a web site :-)</p> Emacs can run anything else, so why not a web site :-)

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