> Best of luck... thanks. this is my first programming book. about 13 years ago, a good friend turned me onto org-mode (and the emacs contagion, haha!). that k

> Best of luck... thanks. this is my first programming book. about 13 years ago, a good friend turned me onto org-mode (and the emacs contagion, haha!). that kinda got me started on my developer journey. i recognized then that, for myself, i'd have to make a decision about what language to learn first, and it was a tossup between javascript (super popular at the time) and lisp. i'm primarily a javsacript dev these days, with a few applications in production. as i start getting my feet wet with react & python, it's interesting to learn these two in parallel with lisp (lambdas, anybody?). i like what i sense as the honesty of lisp, it's so much less encumbered with methods, etc... and somehow more inscrutable. i think i'll really like the data handling capabilities when i get my head wrapped around it, and i'm looking forward to some graph problems down the road. and then there's the passionate part of me that believes in foss/emacs & owning/contributing the entirety of my toolchain, so i'm doubly glad to be working with it in spac/emacs. for the sibling comments, thanks for the recommendations. i'll probably need to get a couple more books before i really grok it.