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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:38:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v0u4scj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed2034f3-1d4b-4bf8-ab3e-707359ec272d@googlegroups.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:41:28 -0700 (PDT)")

Hi Rustom,

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Elisp is 2 things:
> 1. A scripting framework for the emacs editor
> 2. A full-scale (turing complete) programming language
>
> Your intro emphasises 1 more than 2.

Agreed -- the tutorial targets new potential users, and even
non-computer folks.  (I wrote it first for a friend who wants
to learn programming, but does not know where to start.)

I'm not sure a non-computer guy/girl can really make sense of
the difference you point, although I acknowledge i's important.

Dunno.

> How to balance more and yet stay within the 15 minutes constraint...
> Well dunno... :-)
> If I think of something I'll tell

Thanks so far!

-- 
 Bastien



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-25 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1755.1374756308.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 13:41 ` Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 14:38   ` Bastien [this message]
2013-07-25 15:48 ` notbob
2013-07-25 20:23   ` Bastien
2013-07-26 13:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 17:35       ` Bastien
2013-07-25 12:36 Bastien
2013-07-25 13:53 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-07-25 15:19 ` Kevin Montuori
2013-07-25 20:25   ` Bastien

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