Bob Chassell has died

Re:Bob Chassell has died by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:01PM (#14719453)

Here's a link to Bob's book, "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp": https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

You can buy it here for $25 from the FSF: https://shop.fsf.org/books/signed-introduction-programming-e...

This has been a valuable resource on my own road toward learning elisp, and I'm very grateful he wrote it and made it freely available.

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Re:Bob Chassell has died by davexunit on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:04PM (#14719482)

It's preferable to purchase GNU books and documentation through the FSF rather than Amazon:

https://shop.fsf.org/books/signed-introduction-programming-e...

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Re:Bob Chassell has died by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:06PM (#14719503)

Thank you! I'll update my comment.

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Re:Bob Chassell has died by krylon on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:36PM (#14719762)

The introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp was my first contact with Lisp. And the reason I took it up - the excuse I used to cover up my insatiable curiosity - was that I was writing my diary using emacs, and since emacs was all about customization, it should be possible to create a keyboard shortcut to insert the current date and time of day.

And down the rabbit hole I went. So, in a way, Bob Chassell contributed to me becoming a programmer.

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Re:Bob Chassell has died by squires on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:44PM (#14720944)

One line that made an impression on me when I read this book a few years ago:

"Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures"

Meanwhile, the best I can muster about most tools I'm required to work with on a daily basis is:

"This mostly works, I guess"

RIP, Bob

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