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From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:51:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vef8z7t6.fsf@moley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1178307259.17374.55.camel@CASE

Quoth William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>:
>  Lisp's mind twist into utter simplicity is only matched by the
> simplicity of double entry bookkeeping.

Funny, earlier in this thread I found myself saying 'it's so simple it
hurts'.

Don't you think we should be careful with the 'it's really simple'
language beacuse it's definitely _not_ simple to a newcomer?

I guess the point I'm really making isn't a point at all.  I just want
Lung to know that an understanding of the underlying simplicity is
really, really, _really_ worth the effort.

Sebastian

P.S. That double-entry bookkeeping thing... How about an 'off-topic'
     thread so that we can all impress our bank managers ;-)  Ah,
     those were the days...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04  2:27 Is there any good website for emacs newbie? SimpleCode
2007-05-04  4:30 ` William Case
2007-05-04  4:31 ` Amy Templeton
     [not found] ` <mailman.206.1178253451.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-04  5:31   ` SimpleCode
2007-05-04 19:34     ` William Case
2007-05-04 19:51       ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
2007-05-04 20:16         ` William Case
2007-05-04 20:33           ` Sebastian Tennant
     [not found]           ` <mailman.258.1178311130.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-05  5:23             ` SimpleCode
2007-05-04  6:15 ` Christian Herenz
2007-05-04  6:31 ` Sebastian Tennant
     [not found] ` <mailman.209.1178260607.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-04  6:54   ` SimpleCode
2007-05-04 17:34     ` Sebastian Tennant
     [not found]     ` <mailman.243.1178300439.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-04 18:38       ` Tyler Smith
2007-05-04 19:08         ` SimpleCode
2007-05-08 16:59 ` don provan

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