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Mark Triggs  
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 More options Sep 30 2006, 3:03 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Mark Triggs <m...@dishevelled.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:03:19 +1000
Local: Sat, Sep 30 2006 3:03 am
Subject: Re: Aha! moments

Zach Beane <x...@xach.com> writes:
> Here are a few things that triggered major Aha! moments for me, in no
> particular order.

[...]

> What are some of the things that triggered your own Aha! moments? What
> sort of stuff delighted you when you discovered it? What advice would
> you give people who want to have more Aha! moments?

One for me was Peter Seibel's compiler for a simple machine shown here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/2108939e399c5c4e.

In particular, realising that you could write a handful of primitives
and then use regular CL macros to bootstrap the rest of the language off
those was a big "Aha!" for me.

Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Triggs
<m...@dishevelled.net>


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