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From: peter.frings@agfa.com
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:10:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7AC1E108-3490-4581-8781-086AD09BBEED@agfa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81obydhe1t.fsf@gmail.com>


On 21 Sep 2011, at 21:48, Jambunathan K wrote:

> I learnt more about all the strange looking `', creatures by cursorily
> reading the first link and casually looking at the flip-flop diagram
> seen on the second link.
> 
> http://www.lisperati.com/syntax.html
> http://www.lisperati.com/looking.html
> 
> I am surprised that a book that seems so playful could convey a
> fundamental/foundational idea in such simple and succinct terms.

I can heartily recommend the book “Land Of Lisp”, by the same author.


Cheers,
Peter
-- 
You can use an eraser on the drawing table, 
or a sledge hammer on the construction site. 
                                — Frank Lloyd Wright

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-22  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 17:37 [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)? Thorsten
2011-09-21 18:42 ` Nick Dokos
2011-09-21 18:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-09-21 18:46 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-21 19:05   ` Thorsten
2011-09-21 19:26     ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-22  2:53       ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-21 19:48     ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-21 22:02       ` Thorsten
2011-09-22  7:10       ` peter.frings [this message]

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