Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)
by otabdeveloper4 on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:39PM
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Emacs was a godsend for my 16 year old self.
It's an immensely self-documenting and self-explanatory system, and vastly different in that regard than anything else.
(Though once you go down the rabbit hole you eventually start to realize that elisp is a crappy way to program and the whole thing has a big-ball-of-mud architecture... Oh well.)
Point is, your preconceptions, from the heights of your experience, of what "newbies" find intuitive are likely very wrong.
It's an immensely self-documenting and self-explanatory system, and vastly different in that regard than anything else.
(Though once you go down the rabbit hole you eventually start to realize that elisp is a crappy way to program and the whole thing has a big-ball-of-mud architecture... Oh well.)
Point is, your preconceptions, from the heights of your experience, of what "newbies" find intuitive are likely very wrong.