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From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
To: jacklisp <jacklisp@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to learn lisp
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:52:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223905945.2723.17.camel@CASE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gcuj3l$giq$1@news.cn99.com>

Hi;

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:34 +0800, jacklisp wrote:
> how to learn lisp

It depends on how green you are to programming etc.  When I started
using emacs I knew nothing.  In fact, I started using emacs in order to
learn something about 'C', my first attempt at a programming language.

What worked for me was first:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node/index.html

to start with the simplest concepts.  Then on the emacs menu:

Help => More Manuals => Introduction to Emacs Lisp

Then practise, practise, until the 'eureka' moment.  It doesn't take too
long for that moment to arrive.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-13 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-13  4:34 how to learn lisp jacklisp
2008-10-13  8:01 ` Jordan Greenberg
2008-10-13 13:52 ` William Case [this message]
2008-10-21  5:36 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-21  6:57   ` Tim X
2008-10-22  0:25     ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1753.1224635369.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-22  2:12       ` TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-22  5:59         ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-22  7:37   ` Xah
2008-10-22 11:29     ` Javier

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