Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Neil Jerram
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 12:47

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In article <39bjv1$bir@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen
<tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: 

   scheme isn't "accessible" to the layman (remember: plenty of sysadmins
   aren't even C programmers, let alone lisp programmers) but rms knows this,
   and is why he's advocated a higher level binding as well.

At the risk of repeating myself...
(but this is a persistent claim that just won't die!)

I was a layman a few years ago.  I found Emacs Lisp very accessible
and easy to learn.  C was harder (kept crashing 'cos I didn't alloc
the strings!) and sh-like languages are still a matter of
`"$experiment"\"'?'` for me.

Am I the only one?

	Neil.

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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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