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The Clan McDuck is the clan from which a great number of [[Walt Disney]]'s comicbook characters held their origin. It is known since [[1922]]. The most famous members of the clan are [[Scrooge McDuck]] and [[Donald Duck]]. |
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<b>Emacs Lisp</b> is a version of [[LISP programming language|Lisp]] provided as the scripting language for the powerful [[Emacs]] text editor. Many of Emacs' functions are written in this language, and one can write almost anything in this language -- it's that powerful. But then, given that this text editor includes a web browser, news reader, email reader, and even games (to name a few), it's only fitting that the language be sufficiently ambitious. |
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Emacs Lisp has a huge library of functions, including many relating to text-editing itself, which allow the programmer to leverage it to accomplish some impressive tasks. The best approach is to use Emacs Lisp as a way of customizing Emacs into turning into an interface for the program desired. Of course, one can use Emacs Lisp to simply automate common Lisp tasks as well. |
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One of Emacs Lisp's greatest flaws is dynamic scoping. Objects declared within the scope of a function can be visible to outside functions. This can wreak havoc with larger projects. |
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/temp/mcduckfamilytree.gif |
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''additional geneological resources at http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/index.html'' |
Revision as of 23:01, 26 January 2002
The Clan McDuck is the clan from which a great number of Walt Disney's comicbook characters held their origin. It is known since 1922. The most famous members of the clan are Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/temp/mcduckfamilytree.gif
additional geneological resources at http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/index.html