From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: introduction to lisp Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:04:35 +0200 Message-ID: <86lgon9gik.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86vantbokk.fsf@zoho.com> <86tw3b9rvh.fsf@zoho.com> <20170620084255.GA13647@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497949517 1595 195.159.176.226 (20 Jun 2017 09:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:05:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 20 11:05:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF60-0000CW-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF65-0006J7-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF5b-0006Iq-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF5Y-00049J-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45575 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF5Y-00048p-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:04:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNF5Q-0006xo-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:04:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:a+5pLqIPrd3E/ivE5ZaDdWDwCN8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113534 Archived-At: > 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