From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122101018.2f7cfc69@reforged> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7ahrcy3.fsf@moley.moleskin.org>
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:24:04 +0200
Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
> Quoth signups17@gmail.com:
> > Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for why I should take the
> > time to climb that learning curve?
>
> Well, it'll take a while, and by the sound of it your time is pretty
> damn important, so I suggest you get back to what you were doing.
>
> > What are the benefits, as you see them?
>
> Emacs is quite simply the most universally useful program ever
> written.
>
> Sebastian
You can view Emacs from many perspectives. It is extensible etc. Handy
for programming which is extremely repetitive in the doing.
The essence of using Emacs though is hacking Emacs itself with elisp, in that
aspect it is the most portable software emulation of the now almost forgotten
Lisp Machines that I know of.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-22 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-17 22:04 Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question signups17
2008-01-17 22:47 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-01-18 0:26 ` reader
2008-01-18 1:44 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18 9:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-18 9:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-18 10:05 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2008-01-18 11:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-18 23:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-19 0:19 ` Mike Treseler
2008-01-21 16:33 ` rustom
2008-01-22 17:24 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-22 18:10 ` Mike Mattie [this message]
2008-01-23 6:02 ` Bob McCormick
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