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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] An interchange with a student
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:40:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mw9d6ix4.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k34hxehr.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:14:08 +0200")

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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> this is rather off-topic, but...
>
> I teach an introductory course in mathematics for first year (= right
> after the high school, usually) students of computer science (something
> like a "precalculus" with elements of logic, set theory, probability
> etc.).  I was talking with the students about programming languages, and
> (after I expressed my opinion about Java;-)) I was asked what language
> is better.  When I answered "Lisp", I had a (more or less) following
> interchange with one of the students:
>
> S: You mean Scheme or some other Lisp?
> Me: It doesn't matter that much, though Scheme is not the best one.
> What Lisp do you know?
> S: A bit of Common Lisp.
> Me: Wow.  And do you know about macros?
> S: Yes, of course.
> Me: Wow!  Who taught you Lisp?!
> S: The internet.
> Me: And what have you read?
> S: "Practical Common Lisp".
>
> After some time, when I expressed my opinion about the abomination which
> is a computer mouse (as opposed to good ol' keyboard interfaces), the
> very same student asked me whether I use Emacs.
>
> How cool is that?
>
> (I know this is only tangentially on-topic, but I just had to share this
> with someone;-).  And the sad part of the story is that I know /nobody/
> in RL who would appreciate it...)

Thanks for sharing this - I like these "Because it's Friday" topics...

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Best,

-- 
Rainer M. Krug
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03 17:14 [OT] An interchange with a student Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-03 19:40 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
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2014-10-03 20:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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