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

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:52:53 PM UTC+5:30, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:
> GNU Emacs is an Extensible Editor.
> 
> Extensible (word) have it's importance in the way that the limit with
> GNU Emacs is you.

Some years back Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote in response to a noob asking why he 
should learn emacs: (which I promptly saved in my quotes file :-) )
 
real programmers use their brain.
real programmers program their brain.
often, real programmers' brain-programming program is emacs.