From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <80DB6796-41FE-4090-B1DD-BF5AE3F4D0CF@scratch.space> <83zi16ofny.fsf@gnu.org> <6A8BB190-FA64-4697-AFDA-EFBEB4886230@scratch.space> <90addb33-6797-b203-4a67-a2a6c201bd81@cs.ucla.edu> <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526610688 19210 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2018 02:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 02:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 04:31:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVAv-0004p3-QQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 04:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVD3-0007wY-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCt-0007v5-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCs-0001g9-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCn-0001dF-38; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCm-00049L-Et; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 17 May 2018 20:38:42 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225383 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The problem with the introduction is that it was written when > programming was only starting to be a skill "normal" people could > have access to. This book is intentionally addressed to people who don't know how to program. That is its purpose. We recommend people start learning to program using this book. If you DO know how to program in some other language, you can probably learn Emacs Lisp starting with the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.