Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Bjorn Borud wrote: > [Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > | > | Agreed. Stallman got sidetracked by Scheme, which IMHO was a > | dead-end. > > too many people buying SICP and believing what they heard about it > being an important book. I too spent some time exploring Scheme, or > should I say, wasted some time, years ago, and nothing came of it > other than a profound irritation. > Did you expect something specific before starting to read that book? Thats a failure. SICP is a book you should read just for pure pleasure. > these people seemed to be > completely disconnected from reality. Please don't write things like that without backing it up with some reason. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Bjorn Borud wrote: > | > these people seemed to be > | > completely disconnected from reality. > | > | Please don't write things like that without backing it up with some > | reason. > > well, for one, Scheme lacked proper libraries for doing everyday > things, so when I tried to use it I found myself writing a lot of > library code that I shouldn't have had to deal with. but it is quite > long ago, so things might have changed since then. > Things have probably changed a little, but the stuff in SISC isn't specific for scheme, although a schemish language is used in the book. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
