From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] An interchange with a student Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:15:25 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87fvf4oqoy.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412367638 30401 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2014 20:20:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 20:20:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 03 22:20:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9Ku-0005zX-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9Kt-0003Rk-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:20:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Trace: individual.net qCwInyahkNpgWBFn+s4GuwL+dS1U0SNDduLSvjXJ+oeoOHPMSV Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZmI5MzljMzIwOGY3ODE5MzU1OGU0ZjY1MWViZjMzMGU1MGY0NTQ0ZA== sha1:/WokbX2uuQqOHfYnXev9Xl+1o5U= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207979 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100255 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski 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