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From: "Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:45:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u65hwxebo.fsf@coas.oregonstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.0.1068227823.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org


Hi Dan,

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

[snip much good advice...]

> Learning LISP is not hard...

Heh, heh.  Compared to what?  Assembly code?  

I personally find lisp quite difficult.  The opportunities to code in
it are few and far enough between, and the syntax so different from
any other modern language, that I have a one-day overhead just to
spool up to the point where I can do even the simplest thing.  And
thus the coding opportunities get even fewer and further between, and
the cycle spirals to the point where I am dependent on the good nature
of package maintainers to tweak what I want.

This must limit the base of emacs coders.

Despite this, of course, there are many wonderful packages written for
emacs.  It causes me to wonder if this is despite lisp or in some way
because of it.

Cheers,  Jody 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-07 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3343.1068146343.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-06 23:45 ` Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07  4:10 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-07  9:08 ` roodwriter
2003-11-07 16:58   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 18:35     ` roodwriter
2003-11-08 18:01   ` roodwriter
2003-11-11 10:48     ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-07 11:27 ` Gareth Rees
2003-11-07 14:06   ` Adam Hardy
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3403.1068214062.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:28     ` David Kastrup
2003-11-07 16:54   ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-07 17:19   ` Rob Thorpe
     [not found]   ` <mailman.0.1068227823.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 17:45     ` Jody M. Klymak [this message]
2003-11-07 18:20       ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 19:37       ` Dan Anderson
     [not found]       ` <mailman.11.1068237562.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 22:17         ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-08  1:22           ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-08  3:23           ` Kin Cho
2003-11-08 10:34             ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 13:20               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-08 20:06               ` David Kastrup
2003-11-08 21:45                 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 22:02                   ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-09  3:20               ` Kin Cho
2003-11-12  5:15               ` David Masterson
2003-11-12  8:12                 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-11-12 18:21                 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-11-13 19:54                   ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-23  8:08               ` Tim X
2003-11-08 23:15           ` Joe Fineman
2003-11-10 15:59           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 20:58             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-10 21:00             ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 10:34               ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 14:32                 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-11 17:00                   ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 17:00                 ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 20:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-08 10:15         ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-08 12:03           ` Orm Finnendahl
2003-11-08  1:28       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-08 14:09       ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-23  8:02       ` Tim X
2003-12-07 15:56       ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-07 18:09 ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 18:37   ` lawrence mitchell
2003-11-08 17:06     ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 23:41 ` Edward Dodge
2003-11-10 16:04   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 21:17     ` kgold
2003-11-11 10:43       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 15:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-11 15:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-11 17:35           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-12  7:25             ` Lars Brinkhoff
     [not found]             ` <mailman.197.1068625639.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-12 10:22               ` Colin Marquardt
2003-11-12 11:15                 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-12 13:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <E1AIRNX-0002YI-H9@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-08 22:01 ` Joe Corneli
     [not found] <E1AI57v-00032q-9p@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:31 ` Joe Corneli
2003-11-06 19:18 Dan Anderson

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