Re: How to learn elisp ?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <mailman.3943.1249480576.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  waterloo <waterloo2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Emacs Lisp Reference is sufficient ?
>> 
>> I feel  Emacs Lisp Reference is harder and some sections is obscure to me .
>
> This is a reference manual, not a tutorial, it's not intended as a 
> learning mechanism.
>
> IMHO, the best way to learn any programming language is to read and 
> write code in the language.  So look at existing Emacs packages for 
> example code, 

Erm...  Do you have a list of _well_ _written_ emacs packages?  

I'm afraid that I find it easy to find badly written emacs lisp code.
Heavily procedural code (setq), lack of abstraction, giant functions, etc.

I probably have a distorted view here, since I mostly plunge in deep
emacs lisp code when I encounter a bug, so I see mostly bugged code in
the first place.


> and then start writing your own stuff.  You'll learn best 
> by doing.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__