How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 10:22 PM
> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...
>
> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Arthur Miller wrote:
> >
> >> I think you are probably correct about saving notes.
> >> Some vary famious scientists attribute almost everything to
> >> their notes.
> >
> > Yes but what do you mean? :)
> >
> > Do you mean text files on the computer for example?
> >
> > Don't we do that already?
> >
> > Or they (the scientists) have more creative minds/notes
> > you mean?
> >
> > Because me fiddling around with these files, can't say that
> > has contributed to any huge success be it personal or
> > scientific :)
>
> Computers are just a recent discovery, but anyway, computer or paper, it
> is just a media. "Taking note" is a general human activity which can be
> done independent of media.

Computers are just tools, like taking notes.  Use what you find useful.
If a tool helps you, use it; if it doesn't, don't use it.

> If you are (still) consuming most of your reading material from written
> media, then I guess pen and paper are most suitable to you. If you are
> like most people today consuming your information from a computer screen
> then taking notes with your computer is probably more appropriate since
> you will anyway have a keyboard and screen in front of you, ready to
> just type.
>
> But anway, it is your choice :-). Einsteing didn't have a mini
> calculator and Socrates didn't have neither paper nor computer (and
> never took a note), so it's all relative and up to you :).
>
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