From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7ahrcy3.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-22 17:24 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 [this message]
2008-01-22 18:10 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-23 6:02 ` Bob McCormick
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