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From: Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 05:10:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A3A14741-3D54-4E87-AAFF-43B0DEE1F492@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9l577bm.fsf@gmail.com>


On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We are discussing - http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
> 
> What fascinates me in that article is this,
> 
>    ,----
>    | They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend
>    | Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries,
>    |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    | who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared
>    |     ^^^^^^^^
>    |     ^^^^^^^^
>    | off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things
>    | and they learned to program.
>    `----

Although he mentions Bernie Greenberg, I don't see a link to his article.

Here is that article.  The relevant section is IX.

http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html

Chris.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 13:05 Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Emanuel Berg
2013-07-29 14:46 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-30 10:10   ` Chris Van Dusen [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2115.1375179046.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 22:09     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.2028.1375109070.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-29 15:37   ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-29 16:01     ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-30  6:27     ` Luca Ferrari
2013-07-30 15:22       ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-07-30 15:31       ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2162.1375198972.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 16:44         ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-30 18:08           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 18:01         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 11:38     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2041.1375113728.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 11:47       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2077.1375165681.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 11:56       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-29 19:38   ` Barry Margolin
2013-07-30 12:00     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 12:27       ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-30 14:59         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 15:08           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2155.1375196921.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 15:19             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 21:19               ` Barry Margolin
2013-07-30 21:33                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31  4:47                 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31  6:23                   ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31 18:11                   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31 19:19                     ` drain
2013-07-31 19:20                     ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 14:39                       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:21                         ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 15:27                           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:42                           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2318.1375371796.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01 16:08                             ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 16:43                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-08-01 16:44                               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.2323.1375375948.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01 20:48                                 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-03  1:01                                   ` drain
     [not found]                                   ` <mailman.2414.1375491715.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-03 10:55                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-04 21:23                                       ` drain
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.2487.1375651440.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-05  8:36                                         ` LaTeX (was: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?") Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 16:31                             ` Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 16:18                           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2321.1375374479.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01 16:33                             ` Barry Margolin
2013-08-01 17:52                               ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 16:41                             ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.2251.1375298397.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01 14:17                       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:19                         ` Luca Ferrari
2013-08-01 18:40                     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-01 20:28                       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 15:34           ` Phillip Lord
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2161.1375198462.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-30 16:53             ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31  0:49             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31 12:10               ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-31 14:42                 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]               ` <mailman.2222.1375272627.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01  7:40                 ` R development environment Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-01 10:44                   ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-31  0:47           ` Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" gottlieb
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2194.1375231670.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-31  0:51             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 21:50         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 10:10   ` Emanuel Berg

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