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Re: [O] Offer for taking over maintainership
From: |
Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Offer for taking over maintainership |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:09:03 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I have two post-graduate degrees, but I cannot code in elisp so
I am quoting from this article.
I am wondering, people with two-postgraduate degrees and those with
doctoratal and post-doctoral degrees can do better than secretaries.
,---- http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
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| The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved
| to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so
| convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning
| how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how
| to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the
| secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared
| off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and
| they learned to program.
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