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Feels odd to actually like elisp. :(

There are some surprises. And I do think common lisp has a lot of better parts. But, at the end of the day I find elisp fine for a scripting like language. And I love how accessible every line of elisp in my machine is.

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I also find a lot of the user code well written. Helps to have various IDE support from the Editor and built-in documentation.

This actually reminds me that one thing that helps a lot, is to actively explore some of the code you are reliant on. I found elisp (and, well, lisp) a lot more intimidating before I started perusing code. The pragmatic approach so much lisp code goes for is refreshing and goes a long way to justify why some choices that may feel odd actually work really really well.

Yeah, that's really good advice.

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