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My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)
- sctb 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433945
- Fice 11y ago«...programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. 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.»
- greggyb 11y agoThis is very similar to the path many people take using Excel and diving into VBA via macros.