From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] An interchange with a student
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:15:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvf4oqoy.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10387.1412356480.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> this is rather off-topic, but...
>
> I teach an introductory course in mathematics for first year (= right
> after the high school, usually) students of computer science (something
> like a "precalculus" with elements of logic, set theory, probability
> etc.). I was talking with the students about programming languages, and
> (after I expressed my opinion about Java;-)) I was asked what language
> is better. When I answered "Lisp", I had a (more or less) following
> interchange with one of the students:
>
> S: You mean Scheme or some other Lisp?
> Me: It doesn't matter that much, though Scheme is not the best one.
> What Lisp do you know?
> S: A bit of Common Lisp.
> Me: Wow. And do you know about macros?
> S: Yes, of course.
> Me: Wow! Who taught you Lisp?!
> S: The internet.
> Me: And what have you read?
> S: "Practical Common Lisp".
>
> After some time, when I expressed my opinion about the abomination which
> is a computer mouse (as opposed to good ol' keyboard interfaces), the
> very same student asked me whether I use Emacs.
>
> How cool is that?
There's some hope! :-)
> (I know this is only tangentially on-topic, but I just had to share this
> with someone;-). And the sad part of the story is that I know /nobody/
> in RL who would appreciate it...)
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk
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2014-10-03 17:14 [OT] An interchange with a student Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-03 19:40 ` Rainer M Krug
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