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For my work I need shell / Makefiles, Perl, and regular expressions in particular. Python would be good to know too, but I know Perl well enough that I never really had the incentive to learn yet another language, although I'm planning to fix that. Other than that, I stopped hoarding new languages after I noticed how I was able to get work done in Perl (and finally stopped believing you have to work in a compiled language in order to be taken seriously).

Back at University, I got good marks when I took C, Prolog, and Lisp courses -- oh, and Pascal of course, back then -- , but I could hardly impress anyone with my practical skills in those languages. Emacs Lisp is an environment I enjoy tremendously when I get to dabble with it.

Basic reading comprehension skills in C and C++ never hurt, but I would not know where to start solving a real-world problem, and would be extremely frustrated about the lack of expressive power and standard facilities. I guess a good palette of libraries would ameliorate that a lot, but I don't know any such libraries, and the few I've looked at left a lot to wish for. Ditto in spades for assembly, of course.

Never really seriously tried to tackle Java; somehow I get the impression that people who work in that language are not happy, even though the high amount of reusable libraries looks attractive from a distance.

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rep

REP(1)																	    REP(1)

NAME

       rep - Read, Eval, Print Interpreter

SYNOPSIS

       rep  [	FILE  ] [  --batch  ] [  --interp  ] [	-f, --call FUNCTION  ] [  -l, --load FUNCTION  ] [  -s, --scheme FILE  ] [  --version  ] [
       --no-rc	] [  -q, --quit  ]

DESCRIPTION

       rep `librep' is a dialect of Lisp, designed to be used both as an extension language for applications and as a general purpose  programming
       language.  It was originally written to be mostly-compatible with Emacs Lisp, but has subsequently diverged markedly. Its aim is to combine
       the best features of Scheme and Common Lisp and provide an environment that is comfortable for implementing both small and large scale sys-
       tems. It tries to be a "pragmatic" programming language.

OPTIONS

       FILE   load the Lisp file FILE (from the cwd if possible, implies --batch mode)

       --batch
	      Batch mode: process options and exit.

       --interp
	      Interpreted mode: don't load compile Lisp files.

       -f FUNCTION --call FUNCTION
	      Call the Lisp function FUNCTION.

       -l FILE --load FILE
	      Load the file of Lisp forms called FILE.

       -s FILE --scheme FILE
	      Load the file of Scheme forms called FILE (implies --batch mode).

       --version
	      Print version details.

       --no-rc
	      Don't load rc or site-init files.

       -q --quit
	      Terminate the interpreter process.

SEE ALSO

       The programs are documented fully by John Harper available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								   04 avril 2003							    REP(1)