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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: introduction to lisp
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:04:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lgon9gik.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170620084255.GA13647@tuxteam.de

> What I mean: sometimes it makes sense to let
> people go the extra ten meters to meet the
> computer (mainly because there's an
> interesting spot to meet [1]), sometimes it
> makes sense to let the computer do the walk,
> perhaps because the spot to meet is pretty
> boring (personally, I find conventions to
> name keys pretty boring, to be honest).
>
> Which is which depends, of course, on Things
> :)
>
> [1] as is the case with lambda calculus and
> The Lisps. Giving up on traditional infix
> arithmetic may feel awkward at first, but
> tends to bring some kind of Enlightenment
> upon (some of) us. Then we get high and all
> worked up and try to convince others and they
> look at us with those strange looks ;-D

Hey, what's the secret? The only time *I'm*
this open-minded is when I take acid and then
I don't even care about computers anymore!

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-20  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-17 19:28 introduction to lisp Jude DaShiell
2017-06-18 10:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20  0:10   ` John Ankarström
2017-06-20  0:25     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-20  4:59       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20  8:42         ` tomas
2017-06-20  9:04           ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-06-20 10:41             ` tomas
2017-06-25  7:34           ` Narendra Joshi
2017-06-25 10:08             ` Footnotes [was: introduction to lisp] tomas
2017-06-20 12:29         ` introduction to lisp Kaushal Modi
2017-06-20 12:57           ` Emanuel Berg

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