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Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming |
Date: |
Sun, 20 May 2018 05:38:33 +0200 |
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On 2018-05-20, at 05:16, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
> > Apparently, the book was started/written in 1990 (I assume that from the
> > copyright notice.)
>
> The Emacs Manual is even older than that. So what?
>
> > The words "blog" and "web 2.0" were coined in 1999.
>
> > Youtube started in 2005.
>
> This doesn't add up to a coherent argument for a conclusion.
> Would you like to try to write a coherent argument for
> some conclusion?
Let me restate what has been written.
> On 2018-05-18, at 15:39, Van L <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary writes:
>>>
>>> Let me restate what I wrote. The book was written at a time when computer
>>> where not common and programming was a skill you could only learn from
>>> *books*.
>>
>> Do you have a link to a computer museum to strengthen that claim?
>
> Apparently, the book was started/written in 1990 (I assume that from the
> copyright notice.)
>
> The words "blog" and "web 2.0" were coined in 1999.
>
> Youtube started in 2005.
>
> I guess that should be enough.
Argument: the popular ways of learning _now_ are blogs (which are the
thing of "web 2.0", although nobody seems to be using that term now) and
videos (and I think YouTube started the trend of people putting their
videos on the Internet). The popular way of learning _when Elisp Intro
was written_ was studying books.
Conclusion: Jean-Christophe was right, and we do not need a link to
a computer museum to strengthen that claim.
I thought that was pretty clear.
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, (continued)
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Paul Eggert, 2018/05/16
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/17
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/17
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/19
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/19
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/20
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/05/20
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/20
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21