From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Orm Finnendahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:03:36 +0100 Organization: Folkwang-Hochschule, Essen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20031108120335.GC924@finnendahl.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068293726 22595 80.91.224.253 (8 Nov 2003 12:15:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 13:15:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIRzw-0002Eh-00 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:15:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AIStI-0003I9-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 08:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AISov-00016H-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 08:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AISnB-0000LX-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 08:06:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.175.156.129] (helo=icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AISm1-0008PV-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 08:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from grisey.local (root@icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de [193.175.156.129]) by icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hA8CAio31832 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:10:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from finnendahl@folkwang-hochschule.de) Original-Received: from orm by grisey.local with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIRoW-0000P8-00 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:03:36 +0100 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs-mailing-list Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs-mailing-list Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13946 Am 08. November 2003, 11:15 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Oliver Scholz: > > Lisp is very friendly especially for beginners. I agree. I had quite some problems learning Lisp *because* I was quite fluent in imperative languages and used to be amazed reading about lisp being easy to learn until I started teaching it by myself to complete novices. They don't have any problems whatsoever. It is amazing how fast they progress even with tricky tasks. Without any doubt Lisp and especially scheme are very friendly to beginners and would be my first choice for teaching programming. I wouldn't start with emacs lisp for the tricky parts concerning emacs, though. -- Orm