birdgoose
Stewart V. Wright#MasteringEmacs is great. Buy it once, keep getting the updated versions. The author posts helpful blog posts too.
Greg Newman@svw @birdgoose what Stewart said and also the built in tutorial and docs
💯 about the built-in docs. I read the #elisp guide and it fundamentally changed my view of coding. I moved to #CommonLisp as my go-to language.
curtosis has moved (see bio)Erm... I can't recall the order I read the #elisp guides.
Probably started with: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/index.html
Could have been: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html
Viewed through #Emacs of course.
Then, of course, #PracticalCommonLisp and #LandOfLisp and Norvig's #PAIP.
#Lisp is the journey, not the destination.
@svw @greg @birdgoose For sure! Was just wondering if you had had one in particular in mind.
PAIP was my “a-ha” moment, lo these many years ago.
First skim pass: “there’s no code here; it’s all pseudocode!”
Actual study: “Ohhhhhhh.”
💯. I discovered PAIP after years of regular (Fortran, C, R, Python, Perl, ...) programming and learned what I'd never even realised I was missing.
It's humbling when you realise how clear and concise a program can be when thought about and written by someone who knows what they are doing! 🤣