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From: | Drew Adams |
Subject: | RE: First draft of the Emacs website |
Date: | Thu, 3 Dec 2015 14:57:57 -0800 (PST) |
FWIW - (My assumption is that anyone who does not already have some exposure to the command-line is a lost cause, but I would be happy to be corrected.) I disagree. You do not need to be familiar with using a CLI to use Emacs. (I use M-x grep, and that's about it, these days.) * Hence any mention of Lisp seems inappropriate. We had better hope that Emacs' Out-Of-Box impression is good enough to motivate - in time - an interest in Lisp, rather than presume it. Even more off-putting are the fine points of various Lisp dialects and Lisp extensions. Not presuming "an interest in Lisp" is not the same as forbidding "any mention of Lisp". And I disagree that any mention of Lisp is inappropriate. I agree that no mention need be made of different Lisps or dive into specific aspects of Lisp. But it can be mentioned that you have available a powerful, easy-to-use (yes), very high-level programming language to extend and interact with Emacs. And yes, this is end-user stuff. (IMHO) * Displaying Lisp code is probably not a great "come-on". Simple Lisp code need not be a giant turn-off either, and need not be verboten in this context. |
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