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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]].
<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.

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.

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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''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