From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Basile Starynkevitch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Resources for an old newbie ? Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 08:33:59 +0200 Message-ID: <0e037ca2-517d-3b52-2187-a7bba7956fbd@starynkevitch.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25418"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cc: frederick.bartlett@gmail.com To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 22 08:34:55 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q0z8B-0006Po-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 May 2023 08:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0z7Q-0007s4-9m; Mon, 22 May 2023 02:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0z7O-0007rf-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2023 02:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::222]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0z7M-00071x-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2023 02:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: basile@starynkevitch.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DB9D40004; Mon, 22 May 2023 06:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::222; envelope-from=basile@starynkevitch.net; helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -26 X-Spam_score: -2.7 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.098, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143703 Archived-At: On 5/22/23 02:44, Frederick Bartlett wrote: > I’ve been using Emacs for nearly 30 years, but I was never taught it and > did not take computer science classes (unless you count Fortran). > > FWIW, my main OS is Fedora Linux, though my company insists that everyone > have Windows, so I also use WSL. A possibility could be to read the following websites or books https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf Christian Queinnec's book *Lisp In Small Pieces *https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172974 (I read the original French version, /Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp/, ISBN 978-2-916466-03-3) If you need more theory about compilation of Lisp and ML like languages, read Appel's book on /Compiling with Continuations/. Of course I recommend downloading the latest GNU emacs snapshot source tarball and compiling it. I am doing so every day! NB: my pet open source project is the RefPerSys inference engine on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ and http://refpersys.org/ -- Basile Starynkevitch (only mine opinions / les opinions sont miennes uniquement) 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France web page: starynkevitch.net/Basile/