I vaguely remember the first few times I wanted to do something more than paste magic snippets to my .emacs file. I knew nothing about Lisp and was not much of

I vaguely remember the first few times I wanted to do something more than paste magic snippets to my .emacs file. I knew nothing about Lisp and was not much of a programmer overall. The concepts of symbols and quoting were somehow really hard to grasp. It's strange now to imagine what was so hard then. I have no memory of pointers being a hurdle like that. But I guess the concepts are somewhat similar so there probably was a time like that with pointers also.