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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:33:22 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c9099aa-6679-4d6e-8cf9-8865327fb6ad@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5vcu1fF1m14t4U1@mid.individual.net


signup...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, I'm beginning to teach myself the art of computer programming. I'm
> starting with Python and I've built a few scripts that have increased
> my productivity tremendously at work, doing a lot of data crunching,
> Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for why I should take the time
> to climb that learning curve? What are the benefits, as you see them?

You may want to see http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 22:04 Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question signups17
2008-01-17 22:47 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-01-18  0:26 ` reader
2008-01-18  1:44 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18  9:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-18  9:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-18 10:05 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2008-01-18 11:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-18 23:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-19  0:19 ` Mike Treseler
2008-01-21 16:33   ` rustom [this message]
2008-01-22 17:24 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-22 18:10   ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-23  6:02 ` Bob McCormick

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