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Hackjam was pretty fun this last week. I expressed some disdain for Lisp's single single quote quoting syntax, born mostly in my ignorance, and got some good feedback from the Lispers about how it is used and what it does. The "close" for the single single quote quote is whitespace which I had previously assumed but there are so many flavors it was hard to be certain.

We also played with TheGun.exe which brings me no end of delight -- it does not have a config file, but its standalone configurator modifies the exe so that next time it runs the settings you configured are "default". "Played with" included loading it in Notepad.exe as well as vim and attempting to change some strings and observing it to fail loading, both in Windows 7 and Wine 1.32. Under Wine, at least, TheGun.exe would not save modifications to the very executable image responsible for the running process, but you could save them to a different file at least and run that, or attempt to. I suspect you probably just couldn't write to the exe of any running process. Near the top of the file there were some mentions of TheGun and I changed one to Horse and it would not load, sadly.

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