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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What makes elisp fun ?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 20:35:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw.861sr8g775.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d1avjp2d.fsf@ankarstrom.se

John Ankarström wrote:

> The fact that Elisp is part of Emacs helped
> me discover, not as a means to an end, but as
> a language in its own right.

That's very common and it is one of the best
things with Emacs.

I think the young programmers in their early
teens that discover Lisp are
virtually nonexistent.

At the universities they sometimes teach just
a bit of Lisp together with Haskell and perhaps
SML or Erlang as part of a course in
"functional programming". That can very well be
done but probably it will focus too much on the
functional aspects to give a fair view of Lisp,
with which you can program in any style
or paradigm.

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-28 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 12:28 What makes elisp fun ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-22 21:49   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-23 22:49   ` Drew Adams
2017-05-24  9:13   ` hector
2017-05-24  9:29     ` tomas
2017-05-24 20:56   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-26 10:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-05-26 13:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-05-26 14:43   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-26 14:50   ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-26 20:53   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-26 21:17     ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 18:35       ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-05-28 18:48         ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 22:22           ` Emanuel Berg

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