From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: 25 Jan 2006 20:04:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <43D818D8.9090703@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138237493 919 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 01:04:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 02:04:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1vZC-0007hN-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:04:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1vbx-00054O-Jk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1vbK-00053Q-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1vbI-00051p-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1vbI-00051V-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.138] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F1vYm-0005ge-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1F1vYV-0005Gw-Jm; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:04:07 -0500 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <43D818D8.9090703@student.lu.se> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49560 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > And maybe search the Internet for what "car" is. the car of life, a moment's thought. held but briefly, once popped is naught. worry instead about the cdr: docs still unread, shiver and shudder. will i know what to do when i arrive? will ending be nil, or a circle alive? seeding the search engines, contextually void? are people so stateless, never alloyed? ADHD flutter-bys, typists ungrounded, banging 150wpm, yet self-simply confounded. will they know what to grok when they see? will internalized concepts be spaghetti or tree? thi Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits. -- Alan Perlis