Re:Scripting in Common Lisp
by anon10938750136 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:45AM
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Emacs is my favourite software, but elisp is one of my least favourite lisps. The other day I stumbled upon Shen language after some years and noticed it now has BSD license and an elisp implementation. I tried to add it to spacemacs and, to my surprise, it just worked. When I have some spare time the next thing I'll do will be to learn some Shen and see if for shell scripting it is an improvement over elisp.
Wow! thanks for pointing out there is an Elisp Shen implementation!
Workflow being based around interactive improvement of a script from a simple interactive-macro through to things that are effectively done as shell scripts.
The end result is something that can be run as a shell script, although translating to another language i.e. CL, Ruby, Go, etc. is the usual path for me to make better use / performance.
The old joke about Emacs being an operating system that needs a good editor is on need of a reboot.
Emacs is an interactive computing and development environment with half a dozen good text editors.
Factual isn't as funny though.