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Emacs Has No Learning Curve [pdf] (freefaculty.org)
5 points by nextos on Sept 22, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] 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.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html




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