From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:33:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5c9099aa-6679-4d6e-8cf9-8865327fb6ad@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <5vcu1fF1m14t4U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200933642 2474 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 16:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 17:41:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JGzhg-0006Fj-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:40:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGzhG-0006KT-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.19.6 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1200933203 25089 127.0.0.1 (21 Jan 2008 16:33:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.19.6; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155442 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50846 Archived-At: 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