Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Chris Van Dusen]

On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We are discussing - http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
> 
> What fascinates me in that article is this,
> 
>    ,----
>    | 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.
>    `----

Although he mentions Bernie Greenberg, I don't see a link to his article.

Here is that article.  The relevant section is IX.

http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html

Chris.