From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What makes elisp fun ? Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 20:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <96BC1171-45DA-4415-B2E8-3DD4B51AB78A@gmail.com> <8760gng1o2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87d1avjp2d.fsf@ankarstrom.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495996605 10786 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2017 18:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 18:36:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 28 20:36:41 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dF33R-0002hX-1S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 20:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF33W-0007s9-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF330-0007qo-OK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF32x-0007gj-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43703 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF32x-0007gP-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 14:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dF32o-0001nZ-1f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 20:36:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:tfCGVz936tmVqjHFBzPpMHKjDhM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113230 Archived-At: 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