From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 20:48:12 -0600 Message-ID: <20150509204629692668449@bob.proulx.com> References: <554C9356.5000204@gmail.com> <20150508125314086261755@bob.proulx.com> <87bnhuc177.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431226112 7894 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2015 02:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 02:48:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 04:48:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHI2-00023o-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2015 04:48:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHI2-0002wW-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46145) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHHs-0002wG-Pc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHHp-0002r5-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:49600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHHp-0002qz-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8358E21232 for ; Sat, 9 May 2015 20:48:12 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54A8D2DC4D; Sat, 9 May 2015 20:48:12 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bnhuc177.fsf@mbork.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104345 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > A student says that they really want to learn Calculus. They know > > that Calculus is very powerful and can be used to solve many problems. > > I suggest that they learn Arithmetic first. They respond, > > "Arithmetic! Have you learned Arithmetic? Arithmetic is old. Should > > I learn Arithmetic? For example, will Arithmetic talk about > > Calculus?" > > Nice try;-). But this analogy is flawed: software, unlike mathematical > theories, is subject to change. Has emacs changed that much? I don't think it has. It is still very much the same. It is still an extensible editor that uses emacs lisp for the extension language. Some of the small details have changed. But the concepts and most of the day to day details are the same. Bob