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Re: append, push, and add-to-list.
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Jean Louis |
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Re: append, push, and add-to-list. |
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Tue, 6 Jul 2021 22:56:16 +0300 |
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* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-07-05 20:00]:
> tomas wrote:
>
> >> But ... ultimately one writes code so the computer can
> >> execute it, and not so that a human can read it. So maybe
> >> one shouldn't quote empty lists?
> >
> > There's at least one wise person who put that exactly the
> > other way around:
> >
> > Programming is the art of telling another human being what
> > one wants the computer to do
> > -- D E Knuth
>
> LaTeX, veeery understandable! Especially when explained to
> other humans!
>
> Well, maybe TeX was better in this sense?
LaTeX has a special audience, like typesetters (if it is write English
word) and writers. For them is understandable. Beside the heading
settings, I can write LaTeX natively without problem.
TeX is actually easier to learn.
--
Jean
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- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., (continued)
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., tomas, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Jean Louis, 2021/07/06
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/06
- Re: append, push, and add-to-list.,
Jean Louis <=
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