Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial

Re:Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial by probably on Sunday July 29, 2012 @08:16PM (#4310293)

He's been a controversial figure in many forums but his emacs lisp tutorial is the best out there. I gave him a donation through Paypal (for approximately the price of an O'Reilly book) and he personally sent me an email thanking me.

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Re:Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial by lispm on Sunday July 29, 2012 @08:47PM (#4310374)

unfortunately his knowledge of basic Lisp is relatively small and his Lisp style is also quite bad.

He does imperative programming in Lisp:

   (let (a b result)
     (setq a 1)
     (setq b 2)
     (setq result (+ a b))
     result)

code which is more than four lines is often from different sources.

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Re:Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial by probably on Sunday July 29, 2012 @08:17PM (#4310295)

Well, looks like he's got ads on his site now which I suppose takes place of the donation button.

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Re:Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial by agumonkey on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:25AM (#4311685)

Not sure but I think it's an emergency measure to sustain income.

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